...It sounds interesting. I've never heard of anything like that - we have wyverns and pegasi that aid us in battle, and there are other dragons that look like humans unless they choose to do otherwise, though those are more uncommon. That's the case with Medeus, Emperor of Dolhr.

We don't have any metal beings that have life in them, however. Is this one simply no longer your companion, then?

[For...whatever reason. He has the general decorum to not outright ask if the damn thing perished, but only barely; besides, there are many reasons one might have had a companion but not anymore, not all of them quite so macabre.]