After a bit of… convincing, Venom and Mortis managed to drag Octave along with them. Mortis was a friendly boy and Poison had caught sight of the raccoon and took quite the interest in her. She gave Octave another dark smirk from behind him as she encouraged him forward. Maybe coming with them wasn’t his first choice but she also promised that they’d share with him so surely it wasn’t all forced.

”With all of the flowers there’s got to be a hive around here somewhere.” She spoke softly to the two other wolves as her purple pink eyes ascended to the flowers that reflected that color. There were hundreds of bees in the canopy, if there wasn’t a huge hive there was more than one and both optioned bode well for the hodge podge group.

Mortis knew that Venom was bad-ass, and when she requested he join her on a little adventure, he was only too keen. He was an enthusiastic and bright-natured wolf, and even his previous trauma with bees couldn’t slow him down. At Venom’s words, he squinted up at the trees dubiously.

“Is that a hint of yellow...there?” he asked, but as he peered closer, it would just be a cluster of bees, no hive beneath. He spread his wings out with a sigh, goosebumps occasionally flicking up his spine. No matter how much he tried to convince himself otherwise, he could never forget the feel of little bee-antennae coming out of his nose.

How exactly he'd ended up here Octave frankly didn't know but Noko seemed to think that it was hilarious. So here he was with a pair of young wolves he really didn't know, though they'd given him their names, and they were searching for beehives. That Noko was eager for another go at getting honey was ironic to the pale man. But then she was too busy socializing with the large squirrel that the young woman named Venom had with her. Which made the fact when he followed Mortis' gaze and then scanned around at that height that he spotted a brown mass, just barely visible in the thick foliage. He shook himself, hoping to grab Noko's attention. The lemur let out a small scream and harrumphed. Then waddled up towards Octave's head, following the line of his muzzle.

"Oh! What about up there?" Noko said, lifting one of her forepaws and pointing.