and one of the other dragons is very small but clever , and he is playing tricks on the others and getting lots of the treasure away for himself bit by bit ; and also there is a mated pair who have argued over their own share , because the female was too busy brooding the egg to help him fight the others and get a bigger share , and then he did not want to share equally with her , and then she got angry and took away the egg and hid with it , and now he is sorry but he can not find her , and there is another male who wants to mate with her , and he has found her and is offering her some of his own share of the treasure - `` laurence was by now lost in the sea of events , even so summarized ; he did not understand how temeraire was following it at all , or what there was to be interested in about it ; but certainly temeraire and the ferals took passionate enjoyment in the entire tangle .