Kire sighed. "I feel the same way. I mean, I would have still done the same thing, if it meant saving people. But what if it had been the last dragon? The more I thought about it, the more it confirmed to me that it was a test of some sort. I guess I passed it." She looked at the reflection of the setting sun in the water, remembering how it felt to behold those fiery, reptilian eyes. 

His next question though made her turn sharply towards him. "Point?" She frowned, though she bit back most of her temper. "I've been empress for sixty years. I've received proposals ever since. Every single one of those people who tried to arrange a match for me all have some idea or other about what I 'have' to do, what I 'ought' to do, who to do it with. Like every move I make, every relationship has to have some 'point'." She huffed. "Can't we just--maybe just see where this goes first?"