But more news came in next day. The dragon, it appeared, was exceptionally large and ferocious. He was doing terrible damage. `What about the King's knights? people began to say. Others had already asked the same question. Indeed, messengers were now reaching the King from the villages most afflicted by Chrysophylax, and they said to him as loudly and as often as they dared: `Lord, what of your knights?' But the knights did nothing; their knowledge of the dragon was still quite unofficial.