"This exhibits how important action is to the dragons as opposed to the initiator of that action. Who ate the Lalafell is (relatively) unimportant. Immediately recognizing that “eating†has occurred readies the dragon to decide on an appropriate action in response."
That has an interesting echo in the Dragons' insistence that things that happen long ago might as well have happened yesterday. If they care less WHO did something than they did that something was done, it would go a long way to explaining why Nidhogg doesn't care that the people who wronged him and his are long, long gone - the action itself is still fresh in his mind, regardless of the less important issue of whom the guilty party actually is.
That has an interesting echo in the Dragons' insistence that things that happen long ago might as well have happened yesterday. If they care less WHO did something than they did that something was done, it would go a long way to explaining why Nidhogg doesn't care that the people who wronged him and his are long, long gone - the action itself is still fresh in his mind, regardless of the less important issue of whom the guilty party actually is.
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."