Sheesh, now he feels a little bad about all the times he's gotten on Maam's case for her attitude - nah, he shouldn't, though, right? She has lots of other skills she can be proud of, like the healing and also the monstrous physical power. Rosie's normal, though.

"Sheesh, that'd be like me losing my magic power, that sucks! That dragon owes you big time! Maybe you'll look better when more of it comes in? Or you can lean into it, start biting people who turn their noses up at your face, chomp chomp..."

He makes an exaggerated monstrous grimace. He doesn't actually have any fangs growing in, it's just a goofy face. The forest is getting darker, and feels larger. That mushroom off to the side comes up past his knee... it didn't just giggle, did it?