[ He's about to answer her when the dragon shifts, becoming aware again, and specifically turning its attention on them. A glance to Sansa, but then turning its full attention to the exorcist as it breathes out a low rumble and stares deep.
(Aaa, hot. Even its regular breath at this distance is hot, but...)
Not dangerously so, or even that uncomfortably. And he hesitates for a moment, an odd sort of expression on his face before he steps closer to its head. Almost twice his size in length for its head alone, its scale versus him means it could easily snap him in a single bite. It snorts for a moment, watching him, and lips curling back from its teeth in a rippled utterance. And yet...
Carefully, he places his right hand along the side of its muzzle. Letting his fingers spread out wide and still being dwarfed in size, but it merely snorts in response. Tousling his hair with the sudden gust, but otherwise watching him with calm eyes that slowly blink through the aid of a membranous third eyelid. ]
I think he'll let us though. [ It's just a knowing. But his tone is quietly awestruck.
For him, after all, there was no such tale of dragons being gentle or understanding of humans -- let alone any reality. ]
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(Aaa, hot. Even its regular breath at this distance is hot, but...)
Not dangerously so, or even that uncomfortably. And he hesitates for a moment, an odd sort of expression on his face before he steps closer to its head. Almost twice his size in length for its head alone, its scale versus him means it could easily snap him in a single bite. It snorts for a moment, watching him, and lips curling back from its teeth in a rippled utterance. And yet...
Carefully, he places his right hand along the side of its muzzle. Letting his fingers spread out wide and still being dwarfed in size, but it merely snorts in response. Tousling his hair with the sudden gust, but otherwise watching him with calm eyes that slowly blink through the aid of a membranous third eyelid. ]
I think he'll let us though. [ It's just a knowing. But his tone is quietly awestruck.
For him, after all, there was no such tale of dragons being gentle or understanding of humans -- let alone any reality. ]