Otter Creek just a reflex

Alas, the young boy was nowhere near any medicine dens and he didn't pay much attention whenever medicine was applied after his encounter with the witch - also he was just too young to remember much of it anyway if he did recall any smell from medicine to treat his wounds. The fairies were also way too peaceful and so, he had no injuries that really needed treating since his joining them. He was as clueless as a newborn whelp. 

Whatever it was, he could smell it now. She dug and his nose scrunched. It stunk, at least to him. It didn't smell like any flowers he knew, so it wasn't sweet... it didn't smell very edible either, earthy really, he didn't like it. Why though? He frowned at the root-thing, trying to figure it out. Did you leave meat there or something? Like as a cache, that much he knew.