[Geir pauses for a breath to absorb the possibility of showing up in Aimintas without Vern. he knows it's possible -- has even talked with people for whom it happened -- but he's never really quite confronted it, and doesn't really want to. he makes a swift decision that Qri would really get more than she bargained for, if that ever came to be.]

I don't know what I'd do if one of us got brought here without the other. I'm not going anywhere without him!

[scoops the new dragon carefully up in his claws, fascinated by the workmanship...]

This is incredible. How do you do that?