What did the draconian think might have accounted for the Dragon Highlords' pallor?

The draconian thought that quite a few things could account for Kitiara's, or the Dragon Highlords', pallor. There was the long flight from the High Clerist's Tower where her armies had suffered a huge defeat and the Dragonlance had reappeared as well as the Dragon orbs and her failure to capture the Green Gemstone Man, so anxiously sought by the Queen of Darkness.