Kit manages to tolerate about 95% of the lecture, until the Dragon sticks out that hand to beckon him closer like some kind of disobedient page. Before he can make his irascible demand of, "Let me have it," Kit talks right over him with, "You've made your sodding point already--ancestors.."

He reaches up to unfasten the earring from his ear, and walks over to set it on the table in front of the Dragon, rather than his outstretched hand. What? He's not a dog fetching your belongings for you, Dragon, no matter what you think.