Shadewood something wild calls me home

With his head buried ear deep in the snow, he hadn't heard the approach of the stranger until he started speaking - to which Turmeric yanked his head out of the snowbank with a startled, "huh!?"

Slush flew up and into the air behind him, and around him as he whipped his head to face the man who'd spoken. "Oh - ah - looking for rocks!" he coupled his words with a grin, despite the confusion that touched his eyes as his mind recklessly scrambled to match the deep voice he'd heard with the delicate wolf before him now, "Only, they're buried real deep here so I've gotta dig for them. Can't do science without a subject, y'know?" And he laughed, as though that had somehow been funny.