Appeased is a perfectly acceptable result of playing a little game of social theater. If the dragon-man continues to be receptive to Eddie acting that way, then he'll keep up the act. Great!

He shrugs, still avoiding eye contact, but not to an exaggerated degree. He's had practice. "Every city has its slums... however, it stands to reason that a city that has so much invested in keeping the pretty bow on top of a prison colony would have a doozy of a slum. I wonder what ill-favored texts they have there."