"You mean that your acid couldn't work against him no matter what?" It was a strange breach of his professional personality, considering that he usually wouldn't have said anything like that. It mostly looked as though he was some kind of dragon expert, so maybe they actually were teaching him some bad hearsay evidence in his rider's training program in spite of his attentiveness!<br/><br/>Regardless of this, and the fact that he had completely no idea what they were talking about when it came to everything else, Tuigalen thrust himself in the way as he hoped to be able to use his own strength to wrestle away the dragon.<br/><br/>Naturally Tuigalen had no belief that he could actually hold back the bulging reptilian muscles of the aforementioned beast, but he did believe at least that he could be in the way long enough so that his mount could actually do something.<br/><br/>Maybe they would have a chance at working together after all - this was a trial and perhaps the two of them would have to be forced to learn how to work together. Otherwise they might both have ended up dead right here and now because of the fact that the malevolent actions of the other two individuals.