This? This is why her parents needed Morath, Emmalina thinks a bit wildly. She is so bad at this, even in the social situations she's been trained in. This whole- talking to people, making friends, even the bare minimum of not making a conversation Horribly Awkward for no good reason. Apparently that's just out of reach, for her, she needed practice and never got it, and now she's stuck meeting people through a dragon, and even then she goes and makes it awkward. And now it's something entirely outside her mother's lessons, they're in the middle of the woods in dragon territory outside the Caves of Fire and Night, she's been attacked by spiders and rescued a troop of knights, and she still can't even hold a normal conversation to save her life. What he said? It was a joke. She knew it was a joke, and she still- ugh. Ugh.

"I. I suppose Raxwell. If that's all right?"

Unless she goes back to her parents, she doesn't know where else she would go.