He shrugged off her thanks. "As I told your daughter after I saved her from a necromancers cursing bolt thing, you are a friend and comrade, even if you are almost insufferably arrogant, smug, and condescending at times."<br/><br/>He gave her a big grin to take the sting out of his jibe, before continuing. "Though as I said, I really don't want to have to walk my own butt back and tell Meridia her mother is dead and I didn't do anything to stop it. You dragons might tease humans for it, but we would rather take a good action now to prevent tragedy and get hurt or fail, than wait for a better option and fail because we did nothing."