[...she's not sure if she should take that impressed tone at face value and laugh at it because Rose knows that any sane person wouldn't want her to be the leader, but what choice does she have when given the options.

If she didn't take it at face value, she'd have to wonder if she needed to, like, defend her flight's honor or just wonder if the dragon's abs were the way they were in that form via magic or just the natural translation of dragon-ness to horned pink elfness. Those eyebrows are weapons in their own right.]

Yeah... Okay. The whole honor thing goes both ways and all. Since I've been told you're Sleeping Beaut-- I mean Ysera's sister.

Hey, can I ask you something that's been bugging me since the elves abducted a bunch of us?