[ WP ] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium . Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you , the great evil , none finish . However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash , looks you in the eyes and says `` I have a proposition for you . ''

`` You really want to sleep, right?'' 
 
 I nod. `` If you had woken me, you would be dead now.'' 
 
 `` Right, those shmucks from like an hour ago woke you. Right? It's been ages since you got to sleep for more than a year or two. How about me and my gang try to keep them away so you can get some real sleep?'' 
 
 _That... would be nice._ By my silence, he correctly inferred that he should continue. 
 
 `` How about we install a nice sound-proof door on the tunnel in here. We stop them before they make it to your door. You do n't even notice.'' 
 
 _Oh that would be amazing. Take a deep breath, though._ `` What do you get?'' 
 
 `` We rob them. Not complicated. What do you say?'' 
 
 ~~~~ 
 
 It worked nicely for six years. The best I ever had. 
 
 But when I woke... I heard through my feet the grinding of great machines. I flipped the wall open with my nose and got a ballista bolt in the neck for my trouble. That stung! Looking down, I saw over a thousand heavily armed warriors filling the cave, punctuated by various siege engines. 
 
 A few fire breaths later, the passage was nearly clear. 
 
 Wondering what had happened, I spied a survivor and approached. His eyes practically popped with terror, or perhaps it was the burns. 
 
 `` What are you doing here?'' 
 
 After a bit of stammering, he explained, and I shortly pieced it together: The gang's business model had involved spreading stories of how you _could_ steal from my hoard, to lure in more thieves, whom they would rob. The locals had eventually caught on, but they had attracted a bit more attention than they had counted on, from further off. 
 
 I was tempted to be angry at the gang, but reflected - they had given me six years, and my hoard was now bigger than it would have been after a hundred. 
 
 All in all, it had been a good deal.
