Lanier had been on the Renraku board for over a year, and they were only now beginning to believe he wasn’t a plant from Fuchi, that the dragon’s grand political schemes and fiery death weren’t somehow all staged solely for the purpose of putting one man in a position to betray them, so great was their arrogance. Lanier didn’t claim to understand Dunkelzahn’s motivations any better than anyone else. Who could say why a creature like a dragon did anything?