Dandelion milled about the room, sniffing at their teammates as Conor continued his inscrutable machinations. By this point Dandy was already quite familiar with their teammates, and had committed their distinct scents to memory, but they were still trying to settle into the dog's skin, and allowed themselves to be literally led around by their nose for a while. Out of any of them Varo had the most unique smell, given his alien biochemistry, but Dandy still nudged the dog's instincts to swerve themselves away from him. One thing humans commonly misunderstood was that not only were humans alien to anyone who wasn't born on Earth, but so were other aliens. Dandy had at least been living among humans in some capacity for a few years now, but they had almost no experience with Varo's people, making him an unknown variable. Even so, Dandelion still sometimes looked to the other alien for cues on how to interact with humans, as he had spent longer living in human society than Dandy, and seemed to have a great deal of experience traveling and meeting other alien races under his belt. Seeing Varo accept Conor's small runestone and take his place on the teleporter went a long way to soothing Dandy's concerns about whatever enigmatic machine they were about to risk their lives going through.

After gently guiding Eilidh to her place, Conor came over to offer Dandelion a runestone so that they could be safely teleported as well. Rather than allow Conor to attach the stone to them with some sort of adhesive, as he was suggesting, Dandy craned their canine head up to meet Conor's hand, nudging his fingers open with their muzzle. Then once they had access, Dandy gently took the stone in their mouth, and after a moment's contemplation, swallowed it. They licked Conor's fingers, intending to reassure him that he would still get the stone back. 

Julian began to ramble on about the capabilities of the teleporter, but almost all of it was nonsense to Dandelion, who padded over to their indicated spot on the transporter as he spoke. Obviously built to accommodate a bipedal skin, Dandy sat back on their haunches and curled their tail around themselves to make sure they fit. Julian then listed who would be going where, and the assurance that Dandy would be staying at Julian's side was another considerable relief to them. Being able to support and take direction from Julian made this entire prospect seem considerably less daunting. Momentarily forgetting they were a dog, Dandy tried to pitch in some positive affirmations to share with their teammates, but only succeeded in making some indecipherable mouth-sounds. Nothing new there, Dandy thought to themselves dryly.