"Well," Iskierka begins, consideringly, "I suppose Perscitia might be considered such a thing, but that is certainly not something that we can all be interested in. We are as much worth as you are, or more, and surely you would hardly claim all of you were all one thing."

Of course, this is not to say that Zexion's assumptions are not still quite on the mark. Though Iskierka isn't wearing the harness she would wear in combat, there's still enough to suggest at least something quasi-military in the mention of captaincy and though coverts like the one they're near could simply be for space there's still a feel of something military to the place.

Here, at least, dragons are used for quite practical reasons.