Blacktail Deer Plateau There might be coffee

Happy 4th to you too!

I wanted to note that there is a section in the Guidebook that explicitly states there is no human involvement in the game (here). With this in mind, I'm going to roll with this as if Fireblaze is simply mistaken. Sorry Perry's such a butt!

"Humans?" he repeated incredulously, preparing to argue with her. Before he could, she dashed away. Peregrine hurled an impatient, "Gah!" into the air. She was the flakiest, flightiest wolf he'd ever known. He had half a mind to leave and then decided, Why the hell not? and began to walk.

Fireblaze caught up with him again, of course, considering his snail's pace. "Fireblaze," he said impatiently, "there are no humans anywhere in this place, otherwise we would've scented them from miles away. You're mistaken." He said this firmly, leaving no room for argument. Camp? he thought quizzically, though the contextual clues were easy enough to figure. He didn't comment.

"What you smell is probably natural bacteria or some other natural cause for the water to smell different. If it were otherwise, we would know about it. We've lived on this plateau for months and nobody's ever gotten sick from drinking the water. Then here you come along, killing rabbits and mice like a machine and insisting our water is poisoned... what is with you?"