Jade Fern Grove i hope the roof flies off and we get blown out into space

for @Ridgeback, kinda going for a naturalist angle with jaime but it should end up working for scout too!

he can't stop thinking about the boy he'd met the other day, the one who looked like sunlight and smelled like flowers. he's gone now, but the flowers are still around, at least. a bittersweet reminder — at least until their next meeting. he's certain they'll see each other again.
he finds a large patch of flowers than the one pheiros had taken his victims from, enough for the small coywolf to curl up in. surrounded by flowers, he feels almost like a princess. he stretches out, grasping the stem of a purple-petaled flower and pulling it away to clumsily tuck in his neck fur. it stays, miraculously, and his attention drifts after a moment. he notices the beginnings of snow falling through the trees, faster by the moment now that he's really looking. another heavy snowfall, then. he sighs, wondering if it'll ever get warmer. maybe they've stumbled into some perpetually-snowy hell. at least there are a few flowers around now.

the chuff draws his attention away from the snow, and his cheeks flush a little as he realizes he's been caught by a stranger in the middle of... well, this. a handsome stranger. he rises quickly, flower falling away. oh, um... hi, he swallows, gaze caught for a few moments on his jawline. he wishes he looked like that — maybe he would get more attention. maybe alamar would notice him. attraction and bitter jealousy fill him in equal measures, but the former wins ultimately, and he continues with warm curiosity. are you looking for something?

he's more than happy to offer help to a good-looking stranger, even if the man inspires no small amount of jealousy as well, so he's pleased to realize he does have something to offer. i know of a place, he says, glancing briefly over his shoulder in the direction as his thoughts drift to it. a hidden cave along the face of the nearby mountain, one he hasn't gotten a chance to show alamar yet. he hasn't visited it much, but he knows it's uninhabited, and a suitable place to stay out of the snow. it's a cave. i could show you, if you're interested? maybe we could... wait out the storm together. a bold invitation, maybe a little too bold considering they haven't exchanged names. i'm jaime, by the way.

perhaps they have different understandings of the offer, but for now, jaime doesn't see any reason to question it. nice to meet you, ridgeback, he offers a shy smile, not unlike the way a smitten high school girl would smile at the college football player she's been crushing on for weeks. jaime has never been all that great at hiding his feelings. he beckons for the male the follow him, turning to lead him toward the cave. upturned nose dips toward the ground briefly to get a feel for the area and its various smells again, cotton-ball tail wagging a little. the cave isn't too far, and thankfully easily accessible from forest level; he just hopes he can find it again quickly.