His skin was surprisingly soft. I expected the scales to be hard, but it wasn't. "You are beautiful. I love your scales."

"I'm glad you do."

"Is your scale always this soft, or did you make it like that?" I once watched a movie where the dragons made their skin soft whenever they weren't fighting, so I figured it might be the same with him.

"I made it that way. It gets hard whenever we are fighting though we have had no major battles since we left Lyxant, so there had been no reason to leave it ...