They do it to people too, sometimes. [It isn't something he likes to think about, knowing the dangers Magnus and his friends had faced... and how some members of the Clave react to Alec's choices.] But everyone here seems to be open-minded as long as they have some kind of warning that what they're encountering isn't dangerous.

In my world, dragon demons come from another dimension They kind of look like dragons... [Alec catches another glimpse of Toothless and quickly amends that description.] What we thought dragons should look like, not like yours. Demons can't go out in sunlight. They smell like death and touching them can burn like acid. They basically exist just to destroy people.

No one would mistake Toothless for one.