When they had walked around the [?] they saw a small fire, and beyond the fire there was a single dragon sat with his claws outstretched over the top of the [?], trying to keep warm. Every so often he would lift a burning [?] and move it across his wings, then flap them quickly and shake off the loose snow.
The two children asked the dragon what he was doing, because they had been told that when it was cold dragons [?] together in caves to keep warm.