It's perfectly reasonable to want to be sure you're not going to ride a water horse.

[ Rude. But he sighs. This is the most emotionally fraught conversation about noodles he's ever had with a dragon. ]

...yeah. That. You'd think it'd be an improvement, to go from everyone wanting you dead to nobody caring that much. But you know how to deal with everyone wanting you dead.

You know, I could tell you anything you wanted to hear about things half the world doesn't even believe are real. Couldn't tell you the first fucking thing about how you go about being a human.