Well, realistically, Varan's been taking insane risks for a long time now. Being eaten by some kind of monster on the road isn't really surprising.
Surviving it is!
"Thank you! English is not second. English is fourth. Taldane is second." He is very proud of himself.
"Yeah, I did a bunch of dragons in March, do you wanna see?" He can pull up his series of dragons from March on his phone.
Lots of different ones! It's like he's never seen a dragon or even a drawing of one by someone who'd seen one in his life! That one has a black and silver pattern on it! This one is purple!