penwing reads (they/them) quoted Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb (The Liveship Traders, #1)
Content warning Series spoilers
I see the appeared again. The dragon and the serpent. You still have no idea...
— Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb (The Liveship Traders, #1) (Page 12)
One reason I love this series is because of the way it expands on what Dragons are in the Realm of the Elderlings - not the Stone Dragons awoken at the end of the Farseer Trilogy, the real dragons.
And Hobbs hints at half the answer right here 12 pages in. And so much horror and tragedy still to come.