"Where have you been?"

 "Foeslayer, you are driving me mad. Either sit in a corner and read or help me pack. If I hear your claws squeaking back and forth on the ice one more, I'll remove-"

"I knew you were being an idiot. But I let it go because I hoped you might be enough of an idiot to go home and have his eggs. By then we'd be far enough away that the IceWing Queen didn't have to know, and with any luck we'd end up with an animus dragon of our own."