When Metody eventually arrives at the bridge, his bony bits safely out of sight once more, the dragon is clearly visible in the sky some hundred yards away, cruising above a herd of deer visible through a gap in the trees and causing them to earnestly stampede towards the river.

Metody's unique perspective gives him a body simultaneously serpentine and quadrupedal; the long yards between head and forequarters, between forequarters and hindquarters, between hindquarters and the tip of the tail have a snake's vertebral structure, but there is something akin enough to hips and shoulders to support the dragon's limbs as well. He certainly has opposable thumbs, and additionally four more-or-less fingers on each hand. As for that skull-- it's roughly the size of an RV. Don't drool, Metody.

There is flesh too, of course; clad in shining black scales that glint bronze in the sunlight, gleaming with flecks of color of every hue.

So far, the magnificent beast has not yet noticed the small pale bit of personage at the bridge. It is quite busy terrorizing deer.