“Not any better than you can.” Blizzard whispered to her but didn’t seem frightened even though in this form a nadder was a couple times bigger than him and could take off either one of their heads with a single snap of his beak. If anything he seemed… excited, grinning to himself before dropping his bag and swallowing down the smile. If anything this was a chance to show her that dragons weren’t mindless beasts. He moved towards the creature and though it had its spikes flared in warning it dropped its guard when he dropped his, tilting its head (to get a better look at him) with an uncertain trill of sound.
He reached towards it, pausing when it paced anxiously in place and giving it a moment to calm before approaching again and this time it let him near so he could place a hand against its beak. He did not have the same ease that Berk’s chief had with their kind but he understood them just as well- he was a dragon after all. He rubbed with the palm of his hand though he knew it would prefer he scratched at the scales but he didn’t want to dragon getting too close to him and getting the wrong idea about this momentary relationship they had. Just enforced the fact that he- no, they meant no harm.
He kept his hand in place as he looked back at Ava, extending his other hand towards her. “Here. I don’t need to scare it off. She doesn’t mean us any ill.” He assured and he knew that her parents had already shown her how safe it could be to interact with even wild dragons when they were approached properly. Given the way she reacted to their kind though he was certain she forgot all that. “Here, come scratch her, just don’t move too fast before she gets a good feel for you.” He was sure the dragon would take well to her as long as she didn’t spook it.