and you get a very pretty mage and an old dragon to stare at, Matt :B Stone will be in his winged form at LEAST part of the time.

Stone is... not a brainiac. he's not DUMB, and he is experienced and kinda-sorta wise in social matters, but he's not had to do a ton of actual investigating into things, and he's literally from a hunter-gatherer society of dragons, so he tends to default to instinct. he does in fact also have enhanced senses of smell and hearing, though, so there's that?