Swiftcurrent Creek when the outside temperature rises

It had been a rotten smell that had caused Arric to go looking for it. Whatever was stinking up the creek, he wanted it gone. But instead he came across Jakub and the smell grew worse. He wrinkled his nose and then ran up to the boy.

Jakub! He called out. He'd been a quiet boy. Didn't seem to take to Arric as much as the other's that didn't mean that he wouldn't try. So it was with a small sense of wariness he approached the youth. But he was not foolish enough to speak out about the bird, was it a bird? Gods he didn't know, but holy hanna.

He couldn't say much, wasn't it a thing for boys to play with dead things, to roll in the things that smelled awful. He could remember doing it. But that didn't seem to be what he was doing.