Firestone Hot Springs “but don’t take the ones that are close to me”

It was just so terrible here. It reeked, it was too hot, it was so out in the open. If Orochi had known this place would stand between him and the Nightwalkers, he would have taken another path. Alas it was much too late for that and the boy was left to complain alone. Or at least that's what he thought.

That voice made him jump in surprise and Orochi was immediately embarrassed by it. He flattened his ears, spun towards the woman and growled. Did I ask?