"It is time for you to act." But Quox did not wake up.

He lay as one in a trance, absolutely motionless, with his enormous eyes tight closed.

The eyelids had big silver scales on them, like all the rest of his body.
Polychrome might have thought Quox was dead had she not known that dragons do not die easily or had she not observed his huge body swelling as he breathed.

She picked up a piece of rock and pounded against his eyelids with it, saying: "Wake up, Quox--wake up!" But he would not waken.
"Dear me, how unfortunate!" sighed the lovely Rainbow's Daughter.

"I wonder what is the best and surest way to waken a dragon.