Maybe the truth was too much for them, Gabriel considered for a moment as he studied Casey. This was a very specific denial about how he wasn't a dragon despite him laying right there in full draconic glory. Moving forward a bit, Gabriel bumped his snout firmly against Casey's chest as if to give them physical proof that he was indeed a dragon and not a human like previously believed.

"As you can quite clearly see, I am a dragon," he said clearly, looking up at him as if that fact was obvious. "The human you thought as me is merely a form I can take to blend in among your kind. I'm sorry I had to deceive you like that."