Ryan shrugged off the question with one of his own.
"Tell me about the Empress. What is she like?"
Narrowing her eyes, Amanda thought about continuing her line of questioning but shook her head, forgetting about it.
"The Empress is kind, but she has a thing against dragons, which her mother brought on."
"What do you mean?" Ryan asked, confused.
'How can she have a thing against dragons? Isn't she a dragon?' Ryan thought.
Then remembering his own predicament, he thought, 'Well, I'm different. I don't hate humans, just an empire full of them.'
Amanda sighed. "Her mother, the late Grand Empress, was an evil person who didn't care for anyone or anything."
"Being raised by that woman, the Empress has had a bad impression of dragons since a young age, since she had witnessed her mother's tyranny first hand."