Lily's smile got a little wider when she heard her having difficulties saying her name. She really was cute.

"It's my pleasure," she replied, still with her smile. Polite, too. She liked polite people.

She watched her explaining why she didn't hide her ears and tails. So the reason was because she felt her ears and tails were part of her body, and hiding them felt like losing an arm or a leg. She herself didn't understand that reason. She very well knew she was a dragon even though she was in her human form. Dragon blood flowed through her and no amount of transformation would change that.

It's a shame that a kitsune's power comes from its tails. A dragon's power comes from its blood, so even if it loses its wings and tails, it can still regrow them back. Maybe a kitsune will just die if someone were to cut its tails.

"I see," Lily responded. "Then, I won't hold it to you. Just... be careful with your skirt. Maybe ask the tailor to make a hole for your tails to go through. Really don't want some boy to look at your underwear," Lily said with a little blush.

Hinako then asked her about her kind, the poison dragons.

"What there is to say about my kind?" Lily sighed, though she still smiled, "They're dragons. Powerful beasts, terror of humankind since ancient times." She walked away from her as she said this, raising her hand dramatically to the air. She then turned back and looked at Hinako once more, this time with a wide, almost-a-grin smile, her hands on the back of the skirt. "Nowadays though, we have quite calmed down a little. We are no longer like our ancestors who prey on humans. We become their protectors instead, whether that be eating the local wildlife that threatens them or overthrowing a tyrant that oppresses them. Nobody knows exactly why, but my Papa's favorite theory is because we dragons end up seeing the worth of humans. We no longer see them as mere weaklings, only there as prey. We see how they struggle every day in this world."

"And if you're asking about my subspecies specifically, poison dragons, we don't really have our own community. Dragons these days have blood from various types of dragons, so they can birth other types of dragons not of their own. My Papa is a fire dragon while my Mama is an ice dragon. I am the only child and I'm a poison dragon. Papa once said that my great grandmother was a poison dragon too so I probably got my blood from her. We no longer fight over territories like the old days, where fire dragons will stay with other fire dragons and will only marry them, and the same for ice dragons. We are now more flexible, thanks to our dwindling numbers, I suppose."

"Now, if that answers your question, shall we go?" Lily's smile was now genuinely bright. She had eased herself towards the company of the kitsune.

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