"The ropes are made of asbestos" ?!?
Once again, the author shows they got no clue what they're talking about. After using mercury and sulfur to make fake blood instead of iron rust, now it's asbestos, a mineral that shatters in microscopic pieces at the slightest shock, used to make a rope to bind a dragon... Did they think "asbestos resists to fire, so it's good against a dragon"?