He grinned, and stood up, before brushing himself off. "Because you are the most 'fair' of the nearby dragons, you aren't involved with the plot between the dragon goddess of destruction and the human emperor to take over the world, you have a substantial enough information network that likely already knows what I would like to know, and you aren't already 'called' by that goddess I mentioned earlier. Four VERY good reasons to use you. The ones that like to be bothered are already involved, or are too close to give me what I need. But you are an outsider, even by dragon standards."<br/><br/>He smiled slightly, before pulling out a cigar. "Mind if I smoke? And how close was I?"