It makes him start trembling again, actually the subtle reminder of how large she is even at her smallest. At the reminder that he has nowhere to run. Not much of the roof is left empty, and he does not trust to his reflexes or the speed of gravity to outmatch her. He could try to kill her, but that was so unlikely to succeed, especially when he did not know her weak spot.

But her questions don't make sense. How to explain elves to a dragon? And moreover how to explain in such a way that would not make her want to kill him, if truly she did not know?

"We are those who walked first in darkness and starlight before the morning of the world. We are the people of the Earth, and it is first ours, though others came later.

"All I know here are those from other worlds, but none came by any choice of theirs."