An antonym could be a gentle talk
1. A meeting, especially one that is unplanned, unexpected, or brief: a chance encounter in the park.
2. A hostile or adversarial confrontation: a tense naval encounter.
So number 1
The main idea of this passage is that dragons might exist.. Even though others say that dragons aren't real because science says that there is no way that dragons ever existed, she found many ways that science is wrong. Abigail found multiple ways that dragons might even exist. For example, she though it was weird that multiple cultures thought in very similar ways how dragons looked even though these cultures had no way to communicate. Also, that the Chinese calendar used dragons in it with 11 other real animals. Abigail found that dragons were not only in stories but in things like the Bible and in Marco Polo's logs. All ready did it.
1. Because they want to be friends.
2.Because it is their nature.
3.They want to trick you into being their friend so they can hurt you more painfully.
4. So they can earn your trust.
