"You want to know more, but shy away from actually learning anything if it's dangerous?"

He said it lightly, teasingly, but it still had the edge of a challenge to it. Then again, this was coming from the person calmly holding his wrist between a large dragon's teeth and just watching the act with mild curiosity. Maybe he was just abnormally fearless.

"Besides," he added, shrugging with only one shiulder so as to not move the hand Ratha was toying with, "I have ways of protecting myself. I'm not afraid, especially if it might gain me some actual information."