[He'll make sure to talk back plenty, in case, though he's pretty certain this guy's just plain not interested in eating him. That's fine by Maes.]

Funny thing about that. I know what dragons are, but I couldn't tell you for the life of me why, or what happened to them. Maybe they've flown off, away from people, maybe they're hiding in the desert. There's plenty of land where they could be hiding if they still exist.

[They have to have existed for him to know what they are, but it's a strange thing, knowing what a dragon is and not why he knows it.]