The most eligible dragon bachelor in the river kingdoms (and probably further) did not miss the emphasis with which Cynthia stated expansion, but sadly there was a 'tiny' issue that kept him from claiming the centaur as his first consort. The issue was that she was significantly larger than him. Nearly three extra feet longer, in fact, she was a large breed centaur, despite being descended from plains horses, and while it certainly gave her a very impressive appearance, and assets, it also meant that the dragon lord was too small for her. Because if he was being honest, he was a runt.<br/><br/>So instead he simply enjoyed adding her to his combat team, and training with her and Sak'bas to keep him protected during fights. Though it was less 'her keeping him protected' and more 'her brutally impaling opponents with a lance until they were either dead or fled.' Considering that she destroyed the training dummies in a single strike of her lance, he was willing to let her do her thing in a real fight.<br/><br/>As for the tribe, he offered them positions as border guards along the northeastern border, since he had reports of monsters coming into Varnhold through the pass up there. For those that wanted safety, he offered to have some experts swing by and show them farming techniques, as he planned for that entire area, except where the tribe was settled, to become a farming area that supplied food to the rest of the kingdom.