Elegant fantasy study with a dragon, scholars, and alchemy scene

"Gah! These instructions read like a half‑finished incantation. They advertised putting together this dragon would be easy but these last sigils makes no sense. I'm not sure if its going to explode, turn into mead, or—gods forbid— or open a portal to a kraken." The cat purrs, "I vote for mead." Her uncle shouts drunkenly from his birthday party, "Kraken! I wanna get Kraken! Calamari time!" She rolls her eyes, crosses her fingers, "I hope when I say this it just turns on. Ready? ...." And as she spoke the incantation, ..... yeah, I'm sleepy so you get to finish the story. What do you think happened?