"Wh-- I said I think! I've never seen one!" Batty arms up as though that would keep Hanna from getting too close, Conrad hopped a pace backward.

"I've just heard people talking about them. The fuck do you think I'd be looking for fucking dragons for?!"

He is not the hobbit. He does not want to be burnt to a crisp. Death by dragon is not on the agenda.

...Which isn't to say that if he was guaranteed to come back in the same state he left, he wouldn't go looking.