" Dragon a … special friend?” The Princess knew her face gave far too much away. She wanted to bury its burning in the pillow-roll, but instead, she tried to meet Akemi’s gaze with an innocent arch of her eyebrows. “Besides the fact that the timeline of your story is impossible using any Dragonship technology yet invented,” the old woman said, with a kindly twinkle in her eye, “I know a few things about young women’s hearts. Keep your peace; hear my tale before you judge me a nosy old woman, for I’ve a tale to tell. I too have a special friend – a Dragoness called Yukari. If pressed, she’ll admit she’s an Aquamarine "

― Marc Secchia , Dragonfriend Treasury - The Complete Dragonfriend Series