Living for hundreds of years, dragons would go insane if they didn't keep things simple for themselves. Where the shorter lived species could get away with it, dragons just had too much time on their hands to be able to live like a humanoid does. Even city dragons, like Gabriel appeared to be, didn't keep up with the complex webs humanoids wove into everything they touched, only caring about the important things in life and nothing beyond that.

"No, I was going to tell you, though in a much better way than this," he admitted, sounding slightly embarrassed by how badly he's screwed this up for them. "It was going to be a gradual introduction to everything so you wouldn't get overwhelmed by all the information."