Who were either of them to argue, when you got right down to it? True enough, Iskierka might have been inclined to argue simply on general principle, but that's simply part of life with her.

"I suppose you should know," she allows after a moment of consideration. "Although I cannot imagine it would have been at all easy to be fighting even whatever dragons you might have had. Most people at home would think twice about a fight with even a small dragon."