Moonspear her vestal livery is but sick and green

The wolf that appeared was... definitely Charon. There was no denying that. But he looked so startlingly different from the youth that Aesop remembered that the sight of him, changed but still the same, was a shock. The presence of scars, old wounds that marred the perfect white of him, marked him now as an adult and a warrior. (Aesop ignored the observation that Charon had grown up to be hot, because that was an inappropriate thought.)

Not a fledgling at all, Aesop commented. Charon didn't greet him, and Aesop didn't want to push it, so he played nice and answered Dash's question. If ya'll will have me, I'd like to join up.