"Perhaps I should be grateful that you were so persistent and straightforward, I didn't need to rely on questions like these." She is grateful, actually, but that's none of his business.

"Have you gone up to any of the dragons yet?" Fei looks around them, eyeing a few riders and their dragons in the distance, still not sure she's going to actually get the nerve up to try riding one of these things, however in tune with them she's supposed to pretend as though she is.