"Nothing to apologize for, I understand old habits myself. These are strange times for our kind, I believe, some traditions don't stand up anymore. We dragons need each other more than ever nowadays. As for sticking my nose where it doesn't belong, that I can do" Hacesh replied, but he had noted Donsha's age, four thousand, possibly a little more, he was around a thousand years older then Hacesh then. Not to mention the hint to and threat about Donsha's horde, Hacesh wasn't stupid, he knew it for what it was. "Four thousand, give or take? Hm, we aren't too far apart in age, at least by our standards, I'm over three thousand myself, but I've stopped counting really." He shrugged, age was a number and you were as old as you felt as far as Hacesh thought, and he was still fit and strong yet, he had plenty of time left in him as long it was only nature that had her way.
Donsha went on about his own past, how he had destroyed human villages, looted and stole away maidens. The younger dragon snorted and nodded. "I was never as violent, I don't believe, but I did my share in the past when things turned on us, when those we thought were friend turned hunter. I lost friends, a mate, two children, to the hunters, but all those hunters I hunted down and destroyed in response to what they had done, unprovoked, to me and mine." Anger showed in Hacesh's own voice as he spoke. "I never burned a village that was established, but I made it damn hard for them to make any new ones for a long time in my area, or hunt for that matter."
The topic of the female came back around and Donsha said that he knew the same female as Hacesh had, making the younger dragon chuckled but shrug at the same time to the question posed. "Perhaps? We only spent a night together and I haven't seen her since. Though, as I said, that, if it is mine, is not my only off spring." He thought for a moment. "Only counting those I know are mine, and including those I have lost in past, I have had twenty-two children." Now, the question was, how would someone like Donsha, who sounded very old in his thinking, react to what Hacesh would say next? "Not all with other dragons. My two legged form, while tall and I still am very much a dragon in it, allows me to lay with a variety of species, I see beauty in all races now, human included. So, yes, I have had half blood offspring with females other than dragons in the past, and, as last I knew, were alive and healthy." Hacesh continued, not the least bit thinking what the reaction from the older dragon may be to hear that Hacesh had willing laid with and impregnated females other than dragons.
Hacesh chuckled along with Donsha when he spoke about his age. "My mother was much the same, she lived to be much older than our blood normally does, she ached and pained as well, but rarely complained. In her two legged form she was forced to walk with a cane, having a band limp in her back left leg from an old injury, her wings gave out when she was flying one day and she shattered her hip. A cancer had formed in her wing muscles and magic did nothing to get rid of it, the only way to stop it from spreading was to remove her wing. But she took it in stride, said it was just a part of getting older." He smiled at the remembering his mother.
When asked of his own domain Hacesh shrugged. "I roam a lot, which is what brought me here. But I prefer the Highlands myself as my usual stomping ground, I like to keep the peace out there as best I can for my own sake." For his own horde he meant, and the grin he had kind of exposed that on him.