For instance, she felt such a strong pull towards joining her mother's cause of understanding humans and wishing to find a peaceful way to integrate with them that she was willing to be reborn as a human and live a human life. Furthermore, she was willing to betray her own half-sister Selen (so true) in order to ensure that a more peaceful way to restore the dragon race could be found. Elira can also be quite the romantic and can be an idealist, which informs many of her decisions like the ones discussed.