he cursed himself silently for having nothing thought out , but it had been said , and at least it was an honorable name ; after all , he was a navy man , and it was only appropriate - but he paused here in his own thoughts , and stared at the dragonet in mounting horror : of course he was not a navy man anymore ; he could not be , with a dragon , and the moment it accepted the harness from his hands , he would be undone .