Though she smiled to herself at his awkward answering to her question, she let the moment go. Not so much a few heartbeats later when she caught the black dun going rigid at the sight of Zaffre. "He won't bite, you know. When someone isn't picking a fight, he's quite sweet." There was small laughter in her voice as she reassured the mighty fighter that he hadn't a reason to be afraid of the tiny blue dragon. Perhaps once he might have, for she quite clearly remembered the day he'd quite thoroughly gotten on her bad side. But not today, and certainly not anytime in the near future.
A smile was offered him as he made an attempt to return the smalltalk and not focus on the frolicking dragon. "I slept alright." A simple exchange of niceties, but anything further was then interrupted by an unexpected addition.
Dark eyes followed Paladin's, to fall upon the pale figure of the Edge's Seer. White-edged ears quirked outward in mild surprise, invoking a brief, wordless exchange between mare and dragon. It ended on a small snort of laughter when her inquiry brought the equilvalant of a disinterested mental shrug. She belonged here, why did he have to put up an alert for her approach? "Good morning, Hellena. A rare treat to see the Seer leaving her deep mists for something other than the leader's call." A simple observation, made with a simple but warm smile.