The dragon was... humbled. She still carried an immense amount of arrogance - though no more than most dragons do, at least from his limited experience. Many of her responses were... perhaps a bit excessive, but she did seem to at least have an interest in maximizing profits, and her responses indicated that she wasn't willing to sacrifice people to do so; she understood that morale was as valuable a motivator as fear. Given the people's response to her crowing in the town square, though, she didn't seem to be inspiring much fear, deliberately, either - if anything, a lot of her responses seemed to be playing up her dramatic and terrifying persona that was hard to take seriously, while giving serious answers to his requests, showing her intelligence, cunning, and capability.