She is helpless but to pet the Dratini, motivated by the same urge that overcame her when faced with moogles. It's easier to see the dragon in this creature than her own, in truth, but she pays it little further thought in light of Estinien's statement.

"In truth, 'tis perhaps the strangest thing you have said e're my arrival." And he's said several strange things -- she's making a list of them all just in case. "Yet I find that I am glad of it."

Progress. That Estinien of all could turn away from his anger -- there was hope for Ishgard yet.

"How impossible. Yet no more surprising than all else that I have learned. It brings some home to some, I should think, that they are not alone in this."