Moonspear and all the people in a dream wait for the machine

there is a certain level of decorum that drogon attempts to maintain as charon comes charging onto the scene like an enraged bull in a china shop. that particular fact in and of itself does not surprise drogon — he'd been the one to call vela's family to the scene, after all — but he moves away from vela with something of reluctance as charon wedges himself between them with a growl. he side-steps the alpha before the older man can shove him out of the way. if drogon were a father he might have been able to realize how it looked: with a plebeian getting all cozy with one of the princesses but ...vela'd been the one to instigate it. regardless, drogon wasn't about to apologize for it. he likes vela. more than he, in all actuality, wants to admit. he's never actually thought about pursuing her romantically but as the thought occurs to him ( now, of all times and places ) he wonders how much trouble charon is going to be on that front.

vela takes the center stage and drogon allows her the spotlight, knowing that in the end her words will garner more favor with charon than his own. he stands off to the side, glacial gaze focused onto the borders though the coywolf was long gone; yet the attentive and alert cup of his ears atop his skull let the pair know that he was paying rapt attention to their conversation and that he was ready to speak, attempting to prepare himself for any questions that may follow.