ask and you shall receive

His quest for a witch to lift his curse had thus far turned up nothing. Well, he'd found some so-called witches, here and there. Rumors and the like. But none of them had been able to help him, and one had tartly told him that he may as well get used to being blind because it wasn't fixable. He refused to believe that. No, he just had to trust to luck, to the Fallen God, and to his malinois companions who were doing the searching for him. He'd find someone who was willing and able to undo the curse.

He'd left the pack lands that day to travel to another witch-woman Kida had found rumor of, the two malinois at either side of him to guide his paws, but he had not gone far - certainly not far enough to have reached this rumored witch - when an odd smell, almost medicinal in a disgusting way, made him stop and wrinkle his nose, sneezing to try to clear it from his nose. Beside him, Cypher muttered a quick yuck as Kida tried to steer them around.... whatever the source of the smell was. But Eligos paused, turning towards the scent through some instinctive prompting he could not ignore. The scent of woodsmoke, and wolf mixed with the odd herbal scent, and he stepped towards it, leaving the startled malinois behind as he paced up to the source of the scent.

He stopped when the slight heat told him he was getting too near the small source of flame, and he fought the urge to swing his head back and forth in a futile search for the wolf he scented. Instead he held himself still, only his ears and nose working to pinpoint the location. "Good evening," he said gravely, though he wasn't certain what time of day it was. "May I join you at your fire?" He had no idea why he should, except that something told him he should, and he chose to obey that instinct.