The pink tinged cheeks weren't lost on Jamie. Perhaps the nose tap hadn't been in the best of taste but he'd hardly regret something like it. He'd just have to remember to perhaps not do something of the sort again in the future. She wasn't a MacFusty, after all. For all intents and purposes, she was to be regarded as a proper young lady. He just wasn't used to dealing with them much. Clearly.

"Nay, it's never easy," he responded with a shrug, "Nothing in life ever is, is it? Wouldn't be worth living if it all came too easy. And it will always linger in a sense but it doesn't mean you don't learn to live with it and move on with your life." He'd never forget the accident that day. Or any of the others that had come before and even after. But one couldn't dwell on it and let it hold a person back in their life or it would be a truly miserable existence.

He smirked at her bringing it back to him not taking her to see the toddlings. "Persistent lass ye are," he said with a light chuckle, "And I didn't hesitate. There was no hesitation in my no to bring you out there. It isn't safe. It's not even safe for the most experienced of dragonkeepers but it's still our job. S'not yours and I'm sure if you broached the topic with Mac, he'd tell ye the same thing I have. That they're dangerous and yer not to be around them."

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