Gyrfalcon's Keep This world falls on me

Charon didn't even notice Dante's embarrassment, because he was too busy dealing with his own disappointment. It was clear from the expression on the adolescent's face that he hadn't expected — nor wanted to accept — these answers to his many excited questions. "Why?" Charon rudely asked. "If she's awesome, why isn't she your mate?" These silly adults just didn't understand how easy life was; when you thought someone was pretty awesome, you settled down and made puppies so that Charon could be the puppies' special uncle. Pff, what a spoilsport this Dante fellow was.

Dante tried to steer the conversation in another direction, and for a moment Charon was eager to tell about the adventures that he and Lady Nobless Firecomet had gone through. However, he realised soon that it was a ruse to get him to drop the Osprey-subject (or, well, the love-part of it). Charon suspiciously squinted his eyes to show his opponent how aware he was of the trick, but answered nonetheless. "Lady Nobless Firecomet and Sir Knight Starchaser and Squire Drake go dragon-hunting and visit the crafting bears and bite mean bears a lot in special cool places." Dante was probably too boring to know where any of the special cool places were that Charon, Drake and Osprey spent their time, anyway (and they actually hadn't named their special fantasy quest world, so he wouldn't know the exact location anyway), so Charon didn't specify. The 'where' didn't matter as much as the 'what' in their quests, anyway.