The dragon elevated a brow, not that the human could see, but the eyes went still for a long moment before a deep and rumbling chuckle sauntered through the fog towards Jawn. “Well, considering that I am the one who brings it I would say that my concern is of a personal interest. You could even think that I care enough at least to ask.” The beast shifted in the murky darkness, the sound of its massive body shifting before the small pebbles beneath its feet crunched and cracked in protest. The eyes turned away as it paced slowly around Jawn, gaze able to cut through all as it locked onto the various bright flashes of warm bodies. Mostly human and cattle with a few small animals. And rats. Always rats. Wherever you found humans, you also found the tiny little things oddly enough.<br/><br/>“Did you do something wrong?” it asked, seeming to abandon its last question. “Perhaps you were a thief or, better, a murder?” Stopping, he raised his head and listened to sounds in the far distance before slowly returning to pacing, the cold air swirling around in the night, heavy enough to lick around the male tied to the pole l like a waft of a winter’s breeze. “Or maybe it was another one of their funny…laws? That is the word, yes? Words of one that are supposed to hold power over another.” The concept was strange to his kind, the solitary and rather selfish creatures as they were. Not in the traditional sense, really, but they were creatures accustomed to living by their own choosing with little say from anyone else.<br/><br/>“Is it a fair punishment?” he wondered absently before he stopped, standing behind Jawn as he looked at the back of the little thing. My that was a lot of rope, wasn’t it? He laid down slowly, the sound crumbling and cracking through the voices of the stones again. Crossing one leg over the other, his tail curled and flipped the air around it, sending swirls of the heavy fog fleeing through the air in strange spirals. “Do you think this is a fair death for you?  Becoming food, I mean.”