Hmm I think that while she was swimming would be a good idea. Because I doubt that she would have had wand with her at the time, and so he wouldn't think of her as threatening because she had no weapon. That sounds like a good idea for why he was in the forest than, he was looking for Hasai. Maybe Hasai could have sensed what he was and told him that Zarina didn't steal him.

That sounds like a good reason to start a war, the larger dragons think the elves are stealing the small and weaker of their race. So than Zarina was the reason the war started? Haha in that case it started with her both way huh? I like that, though.