It was probably nothing.
Just residual irritation from things not going as planned.
Kael hated when that happened. But maybe his father was right, humans really were wild cards. They looked at the world differently. Thought differently.
Because who would've guessed that that method would actually work on dragons?
Or maybe it was just because Orien was still a kid. Surely it had to be that?
Either way, Riley had gone out of his way. He even used a preservation artifact to bring the goods in.
Today's menu? Hamburgers.
He could have bought them from the nearest fast food chain, but he quickly realized what a terrible idea that was. What if Orien asked what was in it? Or worse, how it was made?
There was no way he could interrogate some poor part-timer at the counter just to get a burger breakdown or ask for it to be made in front of him.
So, like any self-sabotaging overachiever, Riley decided to cook them himself.
