[ He gives Mako a nod when the teapot is offered to him - it's easy enough for him to pull out a cup, given how he's searched the kitchen and roughly knows where the important utensils are. ]

Thanks.

[ This place is hotter than Isaz, so he's been sweating a little. ]

I have met dragons. They live on the moon, and I live in a mountainous region. That place is high enough for them to fly over my nation. They usually keep to themselves, but the elder wyrms sometimes come to impart humans with their knowledge.

[ Well, half of that is fabricated, but he's been telling this lie for so long that it might as well be the truth. ]