Wapun Meadow it isn't about the stuff

Charles did not know how to handle someone being... teasingly nice? He had no experience with this mood at all, and so he just kinda silently followed. As she teasingly said he should not get too close because she didn't want his stink on her, he could not tell if it was really a joke or if she was just trying to word it so that it looked better. Okay, he said submissively, his tone of voice almost a little defeated sounding, even though the fact that she said he should not get too close made him toy with the idea of getting too close, just to see what would happen.

Before he could decide on it, his new companion said they would find water to clean him with. Charles did not understand exactly why anyone would want to help him. It was a mood he had not seen often in his life, and what times he'd seen it it had been from Kaito, a wolf from his own pack. Charles did not laugh when she joked about getting his ears extra clean, because he completely missed that it was a joke. He wasn't very well-versed in jokes.

She used the hard word again to refer to him and then asked for his name. He answered: Charles. Then, after a brief silence, he added: From the stone circle. He tried to remember the name of the place he had visited the other day and then asked: Are you from the Legion? Was she a fighter, then?