The Dragon-Slaying Tale

The Dragon Slayer's Handbook says that a brave dragon slayer must have ideals, morals, principles, and professional integrity. But no handbook explains how a dragon slayer is supposed to hold on to those ideals, morals, principles, and professional integrity when there are no dragons left to slay. Usually, that section is replaced by all kinds of job markets and recruitment ads. Uh. All right. Every so often, though, a handbook that's not so carelessly thrown together comes with a map, showing heroes who haven't yet bowed to salaries and housing prices where to find the dragons still hidden in remote forests, waiting to be slain, so they can put their ideals, morals, principles, and professional integrity into practice. Of course, the maps usually come with long-running ads for life insurance companies and funeral homes along the margins.