Neverwinter Forest never relent

The way Eshe's mood turned sour almost made Charon feel a little guilty for telling her just like that. He hadn't actually counted on the fact she knew this dude; he'd figured that she would say no, and he'd go on to look for Goober some more. When he set out from Moonspear, this was exactly what he'd expected to happen, so that he could quickly get his revenge out of the way and not feel so steaming angry, but during his journey to Silvertip and then back here, he'd actually started to think maybe it wouldn't be all that easy. And here it was. She knew him. She knew where he'd gone. To some maplewood someplace, apparently near enough for her to go there.

With an uncharacteristically sympathetic frown on his face Charon came a bit closer and stretched his neck to touch his nose to her cheek in an awkward attempt at comforting. "Hey..." he said softly, much in the same voice he'd used on Dhole when he found out what Goober had done to her. "It's not your fault. He was probably acting all nice-like. You should just be lucky that he didn't try anything funny with you and that you're alright." Charon wasn't sure if his attack on Dhole had been a freak accident or if he did this all the time. But whoever he was, he was probably a clever manipulator, shown by the fact that Eshe had fallen for his charade, too. For a split second as he pressed his nose against Eshe's cheek in comforting gesture Charon wondered if it was possible this was all an elaborate hoax set up by Scimitar, and that the Neverwinter wolves were actually protecting this Goober and had a story all laid out... But in the end Eshe's charisma as well as Charon's willingness to find this dude won out over his suspicion and he pushed it aside.

Her offer was much appreciate. Charon hadn't even considered that he'd want to stay clear of Charon because Dhole'd smelled like him and Moonspear, too. It made sense, although in Charon's theory the guy was either snivelling in that hole somewhere terrified, or clever a manipulator enough that he'd probably think he'd weasel his way out of this one, too. Though Charon felt the immediate urge to march right on over to this Phoenix Maplewood Eshe mentioned, he restrained himself, since Eshe was probably true. The plan'd have more chance of working out if Charon wasn't involved... At first.

"Alright. Yes. I mean, if you'd be willing to do that for me, that'd be fantastic." Charon smiled at her as he withdrew from the closeness. It seemed unreal that she would go this far for him, but Charon wouldn't be Charon if he took help offered and then some. "So what's the plan? You find him and then bring him to us? What if he gets suspicious? Maybe you should bring him to your pack for like, a sleepover or whatever and send someone to gather me and Flóki so we can drag him home? He might get suspicous if you'd bring him to Moonspear." Charon just rambled up every single thought he could find while he tried to formulate a plan, clearly very eager to get back at this Goober dude. Not unimportantly he realised that he still didn't know what the dude looked like and was quick to ask, "What's he look like, anyway? So I'll know when I see him."