he could understand , of course , laurence 's wish to share in the general privation , but when temeraire had ducked his head under the lintel of the massive doorway and come inside , and his eyes had adjusted to the grandeur before him , he had regretted it all over again , and still more when the governor had come out to meet them : hualpa was not so long as temeraire himself , but not very much shorter , either , and his feathered scales ruffled up so wide about his neck and shoulders that he seemed somehow larger than he was .