Drake looks at the elf.  "Sister, you have a<em>strange</em>definition of harmless.  I've fought cockatrices before, and saw them turn a good friend of mine into a statue right before my eyes.  We came down here to clean out this dungeon, and I, for one, don't want this petrifying poultry sneaking up behind me while we're fighting goblins or worse, because we just knocked them out."<br/><br/>His tone isn't antagonizing, but he's clearly defending the way that he, Callie, and Emrys handled the beasts.