[White? That doesn't entirely surprise him. Perhaps they were ill, if they were the last.

He isn't going to go in depth about flight politics, particularly since he was a a black dragon and Opinions exist about him because of it.]

It is part of our charge, as I mentioned earlier. Our dominion is determined by the color of our scales -- blue dragons hold dominion over magic, lore, and the leylines, for example. Bronze watch over the timelines, and so forth. Not that any of it matters much now.

[He doesn't really believe that. But they're circling territory he doesn't quite wish to broach yet, not with a stranger.]