Herbalists' Cache perjury and defamation

Whitebark Stream wasn't far from here. Valiant had made a day trip to what he considered the halfway point between there and the willows just to see if he could detect any familiar scents. There were a few he thought might amount to something if he followed them, but his father's scent was not among them.

This was met with something like relief from the strapping young man; after meeting Alejandro, he wasn't sure he wanted to see any of his family. Except, of course he did. He just wasn't quite ready to face yet another of his aunts, who would probably welcome him, but who would maybe also be wondering what he thought he was doing with his life.

He didn't want to marry any of Aunt Dawn's daughters, either.

So he left a scent marker in the area, just so that he could say he was doing his due dilligence, and then began heading back the way he'd come.

Hoping for cousin @Brave