But just as he reached the edge of the pool two things happened. First of all it came over him like a thunder.clap that he had been running on all fours.and why on earth had he been doing that？ And secondly， as he bent towards the water， he thought for a second that yet another dragon was staring up at him out of the pool. But in an instant he realized the truth. The dragon face in the pool was his own reflection. There was no doubt of it. It moved as he moved： it opened and shut its mouth as he opened and shut his.
He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon‘s hoard with greedy， dragonish thoughts in his heart， he had become a dragon himself.