"For what it's worth, I have made it my business to learn about dragons. Remember I am a rider; I have had to study them from afar...and you know what? I rejected that."<br/><br/>He then smiled for a moment and stopped moving so that he could look straight into her eyes, "I rejected the idea that dragons are merely objects of study and decided to live amongst the dragons that I was supposed to ride. I've treated each one like an individual and..."<br/><br/>Immediately the Major's commentary came to an abrupt stop. She...she what?<br/><br/>"You have magical abilities? I was told that you would be perfect for this mission because you were a fairly mundane dragon, but were of black scales and therefore incredibly strong...they're going to assign you to something that..."<br/><br/>He stopped; what was going to happen was going to happen and he probably couldn't change his superior's mind anyway. If she was so frightened of a small bird it was perhaps best that he stop and not say more to avoid making her truly disturbed.<br/><br/>That was shocking to him, though. Black dragons were supposed to be the meanest and toughest. Of course he'd never actually met one, ironically with the fact that he made it his business to do so, but he'd always heard that they were supposed to be. This threw a monkey wrench into that equation something fierce that was for sure.<br/><br/>"Are...are you quite alright?"