Moonspear let's take a trip,

There was unmistakable awkwardness in the air, though Charon couldn't quite pinpoint why. He was usually quite good at these things but to him, Terance, being Osprey's son and all, was a lot like the nice cousin who would never do anything unappropriate, so it didn't even occur to him that anything might be going on here. Anyway — Charon figured it was just because they were startled by his approach and paid it no further mind.

Truthfully, Charon didn't know what meteors were, but Osprey's story sounded legit to him, considering he always thought that they were falling stars (even the term 'meteor' was new to him). He nodded in confirmation as he said, "Yep, that's what they are — stars that are falling." This probably would've been the perfect moment for a long story so that the youths wouldn't feel so scrutinised and he was distracted from them, but that wasn't about to happen.