Maybe that was proper parenting. Shura honestly has no idea how to parent anything, so she's just going to wing it and do her best.

"Never thought of them as social. Not with each other, at least." Thymoeides had always seemed okay with his people. Maybe it was a territorial thing. Or maybe it involved wild magic. Without knowing much about dragons or how they would have behaved in the wild, it was hard for Shura to make any sort of guess.

It does make her wonder. Would it be better for Aconite to be with Alistair? Or was that just asking for trouble?