Draiss looked up as she mentioned not being acknowledged, and saw the tears, and completely understood her reaction. He reached up and pulled her down, holding her close, his head against hers, letting her mentally and physically use him for support. He let her see the reaction the first true dragons he had met, Vorela's parents, had had to him, when they had met Orkenbane, and realized he was what he had always knew himself to be, a monster. They had been polite, but firm about their displeasure with him, which had only gotten worse when he had accidentally bound their only daughter to him as a familiar. fury didn't even describe the fathers' reaction, but infinitely worse had been the disappointment Vorela's mother had displayed, to both him and her.<br/><br/>He also showed her what he had meant by the link, that it would be similar to what they were doing now, but deeper, and far easier for a reaction of anger to turn into a mental attack, which was very hard to deflect when bound that deeply. It wasn't permanent, he had done the link with Avi and Kammy to make sure there was no threat, and Kammy's reaction to him seeing her 'true' self had been why he had mentioned a possible danger. It had left him with a migrane for a couple days, but nothing else. With a god on the other end, however, it could cause actual damage rather than just pain.