Now dragons have been around for a awfully long time and if you check the rise fall and rebirth of the various Empires,Republics City States and Matriarchies you'll notice that there are times when dragons are little more then pack animals and other times when they aspire to travel to other stars in the skies above.
Currently the Imperrial Dragon Matriarchy is at
some 18th and 19th century melding of steampunk fantasy with a good dose of British Colonialism thrown in.
The Empress tolerates dragongirls like Laura but views dragon girls as 4rth class humans jerking about with the perfect species and gender
a female dragon rather then a dragon girl.
So a weird situation had arisen where the Empress viewed dragon girls as little more then
stetched out kobbold wannabes and paradoxically viewed knowledgeable in dragon affairs humans such as Brad and other qualifying humans as suitable for a major evolutionary and hormonal and feminist promotion into the
Imperial Dragon Matriarchy.
It seemed a minor Royal niece of the Empress
a a Lady Slithorina,having acquired ownership of a Secret Hoarding Services portfolia,wanted to adopt a few good former humans as her drragon daughters to staff the portfolio.
So
Abra Cadabra
Now you see Brad the Human
Now you see
Lady Brandyfyre the Dragoness
happened.