Alicia smiled. She would let Ryuuko get away with that answer....for now. "Tolerate, might be the wrong word. If you feel that someone is being disrespectful....what's wrong with just telling them so? If they are not doing so on purpose?" she asked.
"Wendy...I don't have any classes with him, so I can't say I know him very well. What does he do that is disrespectful towards you?" she asked.
"I know that you are around the age of the other students here, but you have to take into account age verses life span. Dragons can live to be thousands of years old, right? So when you take that into account, 15 years is a drop in the bucket to a 2 thousand year lifespan. Where as 15 years to an 80 year life span is more significant. There is no shame in being young. Please, enjoy your youth. The world catches up to you sooner or later, so enjoy it while you can." she explained. "You are very smart, no one doubts that. But you are young, it's not a disrespectful statement, it's true. Why do you suppose that creatures...humans, dragons, or otherwise, are so protective of their young?" she asked.