Moonspear her vestal livery is but sick and green

For a moment it seemed as though the young emperor would chase Aesop off, for he had little will to get his hopes up only to have them crushed again. He only vaguely remembered telling Aesop never to leave again the last time that they had stood here. Had it been here, or back in Stavanger Bay? He didn't even remember. He just remembered Atreyu'd been there. Yet another face from the old days who was gone now.

The moment ended very abruptly when Charon said, his tone almost as though someone else had decided for him and he was the one to bring the news without agreeing to it: "Fine, you can stay. But you'd better be there for my pups." He spoke the words as a threat, and he meant them as such — he didn't want his children to get attached to someone only to have them ripped away from them, like he had experienced so many times in his life.

skipping dash to move the joining process along since he's just sticking around in the bg, but feel free to pop in any moment mary ellen! :)