"Let's hope it has far less control than it thinks it does."

She turns back to face him. "I will do my best. I am used to tricksters but usually I have some reasonable recourse I can follow if they get too out of hand. Tricking them back if nothing else." She's not going to admit it, but she's definitely pranked the shit out of people who prank her too often. "I'm not sure how to trick something that can read me this well. It may choose to speak into my ear, but I have some reason to believe it doesn't need to."

The fox came to stand softly beside it, willing itself to pay attention to gravity once more. It looks the dragon up and down, then tilts its head to the side in an eerily human manner.

"Have you any plans on how to form a greater bond with your chosen?"

If there is guile in this being's heart (and rest assured there is) it does not ride upon his voice.