He tenses up at first, but relaxes when he realizes it isn't an attack.

"Oh, what? Really?" He stares at her for a long moment, trying to match her image to his memories of fighting dragons back home. It doesn't match at all. Does that mean that his dragons are weird, or that she is?

"Right," he says as he suddenly remembers she asked him a question.

"I heard you could make me stronger?"