[He rolls his eyes. Again with dragons. He doesn't really get the universal fixation, or why people seem to keep making that leap just from looking at him.]

Could be. Wouldn't be the strangest thing to happen around here, would it? [He shrugs. The premise of the question— why armor?— just seems weird to him.] I've got some sense of self-preservation, you know.

[Impending death or not.]