[well, that's .... freakish. He kind of jerks his head back in surprise when she flies in closer. But, if he was going to attempt being polite on the off chance it was a living creature, he couldn't really back out now that she'd confirmed it - could he?]
Hey.... [Now the trick was figuring out how to make small talk ... with a dragon. Nervous smile, he didn't exactly have a good track record with dragons, but at the same time, he still didn't know that's what she was.]