“What’s the surprise here?” Ferences asked flatly. The fox was conspicuously nowhere to be seen. “You growl and threaten to eat people. You’re not especially uh… what’s the word? Approachable. Also yes, I speak Dragconic. You don’t work in a joint human-dragon hospital without picking up the language. Now please shut up because if I have to hear your sibling banter one more time I’m going to vomit.”