Paladin/Dragon Romance

>Be Paladin
>Be happily married to qt dragon waifu you met on a quest
>Be coming up on 10 year anniversary
>Wracking brain to think of a suitable present
>Gold Jewelry? Check
>Rubies? (red dragons LOVE rubies) Check
>Fancy dinner at your Lord Cousin's place (his cook is unbelievable)? Check
>A trip upriver to the highlands for a few weeks in the country? Check
>Still doesn't seem enough
>get to the day
>As you walk into the Banquet Hall, you are surprised by a crowd of your partymates, old friends, the town selectmen, your extended family, and a full brass band (your cousin is a bit of a showboat)
>Band keys up "A Dragon's Love Forever", a song about a fool who saves a dragon egg as a child, and who keeps getting into humorous scrapes only to be saved himself time and time again by the dragon he had once rescued.
>The song is clearly a dig at your less-than-noteable wit, but it's jolly refrain of:

>"Fear not, fear not, oh Ivan,
No matter where thou roam
You'll have no fear man nor beast
Abroad or safe at home

>For though you're neither strong nor wealthy,
And your mind is none to clever,
Your heart is cast of solid gold
And a dragon loves forever"

>Brings tears to her eyes
>You don't get long past the dessert wine before she hauls you bodily out of your chair, out of the banquet hall, and up to your room
>You play "St. George and the Dragon" all night long
>Your cousin won't stop snickering at you the next morning when you come down to breakfast covered in lip-prints and limping slightly