He made a thoughtful noise, "It is not my place to say...but knowing her, she would not tell you herself..." He said, "As you have guessed, she too is a half-breed, if you'll pardon the expression. Her mother was the mate of a very old, very powerful dragon, and Lunette is a very taboo child amongst our kind. I know not if your parent dragon passed on their knowledge to you, but a human-dragon offspring is told as an omen of disaster to dragon kind." Khari exhaled slowly, "Her father did his best to hide his mate and child, but he could only do so much before he had to perform his dying rites and rejoin the cycle. She was very young, so...so very young..." He closed his eyes and exhaled again, "She watched her mother die, kinsman...torn to shreds by her own kind. And it would have been her next had she not been hidden...her home was destroyed and she wandered for a long time, only to be shunned by everyone she asked for help. She was on death's very doorstep when I found her and took her into my care...she has lost so much, kinsman, just as you have...you and her are not so different..."