Both of Ashton's eyebrows lifted at the change that took place. He wasn't certain if it was because of what his answer was, or the anger he had behind it, but her warm smile was unexpected and caught him off guard just as easily as her appearance had. "You're a-- A what?" In his isolation and limited reading, Ashton had never heard the term gorgon before.
And his voice, when compared to hers, came out growly and gruff and he was suddenly conscious of it. He cleared his throat and looked down at the bag he held, nodding that he was indeed a new student in Hydra, and opened his mouth to give his room, shifting his feet because, while he didn't want to accept her help, she had not phrased it as a question that he could turn down, and he was thwarted out of refusing. Or risk being rude, which Blake had specified he try not to be.
"There is nothing else." Meaning his luggage, of course. But it was a thing that, once said, brought him to thoughts of his lost gold. There was nothing else because the human had tricked him out of it. All of his precious inheritance. It caused the dragon to forgo the advice given to him by the Dragonslayer and the unfortunate target of his ire happened to be the girl - the gorgon - in his path. "I don't require your assistance," he said as coldly as he could summon. Her smile and her accent really was intriguing, as were those snakes as they coiled and wound around her head.