Emily and Ashton and OPEN
Ashton had been looking forward to seeing what this custom was of a school dance ever since Emily told him about it. He'd been hearing people talk, not all of them with optimistic outlooks on the dance, but it was a human custom and therefore, he was going to get involved and learn. As with the other customs, he found out information from reliable sources, including his fellow students. Emily told him that it was customary for someone to ask another person to be their date to the dance, and without thinking much of it, he informed Emily that she would be going with him. Unaware of any problems or how it may look to others, he had come to Sphinx dorm, as instructed, and picked up Emily (she did not mean literally, he was told) to escort her to the ballroom.
The room was big enough for him to be in his dragon form, he observed while standing beside Emily in a white cotton shirt and linen pants that were supposed to be appropriate to the theme. The most noticeable thing different about Ashton had been the almost pleasant expression he wore upon seeing the way the room had been done up. Growing up in the lava fields of Iceland and then only recently relocated to the forested Maine, in his 101 years Ashton had never seen a tropical place in person, but he imagined it must be something like this - minus the annoying music.
"What happens now?" he asked Emily, eyes returning to her.