You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone

"Actually… It's two special tasks, Researchina. First, find a good Archivist who isn't too reluctant to leave the hive and find Explanatory—she's the head of the dragon language project. Let her install someone else in her place, give her a new team—a larger team!—and a new assignment. She must go to the human settlement and study their language!"

I paused, then added:

"Not right now, of course. We still don't have the route toward human settlement, and it looks like a long journey. But you can begin preparations now."

This was a much harder task than studying dragon language, and more dangerous. But I felt like Explanatory was a person with the best skills and experience for it.

"We never needed a language to conquer someone before," Bloodhero muttered, then hurriedly added, "But it's as you say, Father!"

I chuckled.