Ah, so interesting indeed! Those scales, and the claws and the tail and those wings! Those leathery straps though, he's just noticing them around its body and it makes him even more curious. Once Shadow is done with the ground inspection —that obviously handmade tail-fin doesn't go unnoticed— and he is facing the weird winged lizard again, he decides to climb it! It's all in favor of knowledge of course! He avoids starting on that face because the smell is not so good this close! He tries climbing its frontal leg, but that seems awfully difficult once he gets to the shoulder. Nope. He analyzes it better once he slides down again, then he goes south and he finds a smoother way up on its tail.

Up, up, up he goes! Pawing and smelling those scales that go along its back. Until he finds the saddle—now that smells awfully different, and hell, he knows this aroma. It's definitely human. So this creature is a mount? How nice...

Shadow stops in the middle of that saddle and pats it, impatiently huffing. How do you control this?