Society is held together by a thousand pleasant, functional lies, ah? Finding anything of shame in the naked form is a lie people built. Nudity may be less effective for keeping a body safe, based on its environment, but there's no shame in the fact of it. Only people's intentions for it.

( it's not that he's strictly wrong, or largely right, but he says all this as a soothing sort of chirpy, chatty burble, likewise sneaking more tails into the dragon's lap until he's had to shift himself so all nine are, somehow, shoved that direction.

idly, cradling his chin in hand on an upraised knee, observing his dragon friend in profile, he opines: )

You're even handsome when you're blushing. Have I said that already?