He reached over and knocked on her head. "Honey, dear, mortals aren't meant to be isolated, it does funny things to their thought processes. They end up arrogant, reckless, and slightly paranoid. Like me."<br/><br/>He had sent a thought to Goldie, apologizing for his previous abruptness, but that had been the current major elven goddess, and she had been in the process of falling apart. Last thing he had wanted was for Goldie to make a comment, set the elf off, and then have to scrape the dragoness off a wall.