Ancalagon smiles at her bow, and listens to her description of how she is running the area, and considers the problem in front of him. Namely, how to bring the area under his wings, and Navi, without killing or destroying anything. He nods at her description of what she does as the ruler of this stretch.<br/><br/>He does not bother to conceal his thoughts, but explains how he rules, saying, "Being in the starting phase of my little empire, I am attempting to do what you do, but with a central base set up, and send out a few of my guards at a time to train up some of the locals to deal with minor problems, keeping myself and the other dragons in reserve for problems the militia can not deal with. I already have a mutual protection treaty set up with the Yuan-ti, and am debating how best to set up the information network that will allow me to become aware of problems before the locals feel an adventuring party needs to be hired to deal with me. It would only cause problems all around."<br/><br/>He shrugs and then continues, "As for myself, I am expanding as I see that I can hold the areas I have, and can reasonably expect to hold the areas I am attempting to add. I try to not make any oaths, at least none that I can not abide by. Again, it will only cause problems later on.<br/><br/>What I intended to do here was add you to my fold, and then simply leave you where you where, as the locals are already used to you. But since you seemed willing to talk, as opposed to Shyrath and Rummsprig, that plan was changed a bit."