Phoenix Maplewood [BWP] Campground #1

adi's eyes shot to easy with some alarm, though it melted into fascination as she spoke further. she didn't seem worried about it, so why should he? he tried to keep in mind their earlier conversation about his babying her. aditya had scouted extensively at her age, and had only come out of it with some harebrained adventures--he had been none the worse for wear.

"i've smelled something like this before," aditya mused, nostrils flaring as he wrinkled his nose in distaste. it wasn't a very sweet scent; more pungent, and acrid, and so. . .dominating. it was a predator's odor, but which one? "down south, there was a lot of it. i've never caught the scent here, though. not until today."

he thought about what easy had said with a quiet hum to himself. alya sounded nothing like easy; the man had likely mistaken her for someone else, and in a sickened stupor, at that. he thought of his own fevered delirium for a brief, unsettling moment. perhaps the sickness had spread past morningside's borders to the rest of the wilds. it wasn't impossible.

but then, why the foreign scent on his pelt? had whatever trampled down here given morningside's wolves the sickness, too? if so, the threat needed to be eradicated, and soon.