While Riley had personal issues with the elven lot, he wasn't one to point fingers at innocents, especially not children.
It wasn't that he believed children couldn't commit crimes. As a human, he'd seen enough to know that magical beings, from the youngest to the oldest, were fully capable of atrocities in the name of fun or curiosity. Humans had been their targets too many times for him to forget that.
But, like with that dragonling Orien, Riley believed such behavior was shaped by more than just innate nature.
Nature versus nurture.
Actually, he didn't even have to reach as far as Orien for proof. He only had to glance sideways at the golden lizard sitting in front of him, who was every bit an anomaly.
By nature, dragons weren't supposed to be easy-going. In fact, maybe it was only Lord Karion and Lady Cirila who were the exceptions among their kind.
