Neverwinter Forest it's about progress

Certainly was different than their first meeting. Um. How did he even navigate this? You know, without having to answer too many awkward questions he really didn't want to and possibly blurt out something stupid? It's just you? I thought I smelled someone else too. Maybe I'm crazy. Yep, that was the ticket! He looked around as if to emphasize this.

He really did have to make sure that Zeph wasn't like.. Actually in heat though, even though that scent didn't match up to the scents he already knew. So Mal gave him a sniff and a sorta-playful shove, Had a good trip out there? He was 100% trying to play this off as not a big deal and not him previously expecting a world-ending disaster. But it wasn't from Zeph. But that didn't make Mal's lizard brain want to go find the scent's original owner any less. No, brain, bad. It's panic time still. But it was probably a good thing Zeph was Zeph and not like.. Any of the other guys in the pack in this case or they might have had someone else show up at the borders like Cupid had done.