Hearing the name of this particular animal, Rosvisser was momentarily taken aback.

“A… donkey?”

Leon nodded.

“But why would a dragon clan keep a donkey as a pet? Are you sure you aren’t mistaken?”

Rosvisser’s skepticism was well-founded. Donkeys were nearly nonexistent among the dragon clans—not because they were valuable, but simply because they held no practical value for dragons. As food, they didn’t have enough meat or the preferred taste. As labor, anything a donkey could do could be done better and faster by other creatures trained by dragons.

The idea of keeping a donkey as a pet was …