Neverwinter Forest never relent

oops, i totally missed Scim's reply in my previous post so i'll just say Charon was derpy and didn't notice him yet :-) edit: and omg i only now realised that i had skipped over scimitar with this reply in the post order. i'm sorry, rachel! x _x; i'll stick to the order from now on, derpy derp

Eshe explained that Flóki had mentioned a double date, which surprised Charon a little. This must've been arranged before Dhole had gotten assaulted, when they were still mates (or were they now? Charon wasn't even really sure, but not in the same way as before, surely), and before Flóki knew that Eshe was a Frostfur too. It seemed like a good excuse, but not just that. It seemed very fitting that Goober would be lured into a trap pertaining Dhole in some way. "Great! Just..." He hesitated a beat or two, "Better not mention Dhole's name, though. I mean, Wildfire." Maybe he was betraying exactly who it was that Goober had attacked, but he didn't want to take the risk that Goober would realise he was being tricked. "Maybe just say it's for some friends, and he doesn't gotta know their names? Otherwise maybe this Goober dick might have met either of 'em and know they're from Moonspear and get suspicious."

As for middle ground — "Maybe Firefly Glen? It's pretty romantic with the bugs at night, and near enough to Moonspear—" Charon hadn't noticed Scimitar's approach at all, so focused was he on his conversation with Eshe, and he startled a little when he saw the Alpha there. It wasn't because he was getting cosy with Eshe moments ago, or anything; he was only doing that to comfort her, and anyway, they were related in some way or another. Oh, and he had a mate. Yet he halted his sentence midway and only when he realised how ridiculous he had to look Charon quickly tacked on, "— Ehr, close enough so that we can be easily fetched." The look on Scimitar's face didn't go unnoticed, and Charon squinted his eyes a little. He didn't like Scimitar. And it wasn't just the Jorunn thing. It was just that he reminded Charon a lot of Dante, what with his 'I'm better than you' stare. Wolves like Dante and Scimitar just thought that they had the right to feel better than others 'just because'. They didn't understand that Charon had worked hard for all that he had and that he had earned his status. They didn't understand that Charon and his wolves were chosen, and that there were reasons that their mountain elevated them physically above the other wolves. They didn't understand that he was the chosen child of the Gods, a thing that had been proven to Charon by the series of events in his life that had shaped him into who he was today.

Yet he decided to give Scimitar another chance, if not only for Eshe's sake, and swallowed his irritation towards the Neverwinter Forest Alpha for the moment. "Hello," he said eventually, which probably sounded kind of silly following his awkwardly cut off sentence and the silence which followed in which Charon poorly hid his dislike for the Frostfur. "Don't go alone," said Charon swiftly when Eshe asked for tactics. He softened again as he looked at her and said, "Actually, maybe... Is there any guy who could take care of this instead? My friend was raped." He knew others had a hard time pronouncing the word, but Charon had no qualms with it. The facts could be out on the table. "I can't believe I was going to let you go after him alone." It sounded pretty dumb as he said it, 'cause he probably should've prohibited her from going in the first place, but only now that she asked about it Charon realised the risk. He forgot that not all females were of the shield maiden type, like Thistle and most certainly Amekaze.