The risk doesn't seem to have stopped all dragons... but I commend you for not taking the risk.

[Given, as he says, the increased risk of infection that comes along with dragons (or fae) he would have expected more of them to stay away, but many have come regardless.]

I don't think that any of us entirely expected... what is happening. [That it would be difficult, certainly, but this?]

There's no turning back from it now. It needs to be seen out to the end.