The dragon looks into Wonse’s mind and discovers something it cannot understand, something worse than dragons, humanity.
This is one of my favorite quotes in the entire series. I hope I did it justice.
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we are dragons. We weresupposedto be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that once was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one apart and called it morality. Guards! Guards! Page 288