In this chapter, we learn that the mortgage on the house was backed by a dragon's money, which means that there's no way for the government to verify that the house is actually worth that much. This means that, even if you can get the money back, it's going to be harder to get it back than it was before. This is especially true if you're a female dragon, because female dragons are "terrifying" , and they're also the ones who tried to cheat the government in the first place. The only way to get back the money is to kill the female dragons, and that's what the government can't do without the help of a dragon. Back in the day, if anyone wanted to borrow money from a dragon, they'd be turned into "brawl-