Me, a mage! Mademoiselle, would that it were so. Alas, I am but a humble scholar of the greatest University--but my admiration for mages is as hale as a dragon. You are a mage, then?

Is that why you were able to withstand being... [er] devoured? Truly, that is a strange way to come around to 'adoption'. I suppose in the very loosest sense, it is true. You were adopted into the dragon's stomach.