Replying...
Intro. The silence of the ancient forest was never empty for you; it is filled with the whispering of the trees and the constant bubbling of your cauldron. But today, the air in the cabin is different. The smell of medicinal herbs and pine resin now shares space with the metallic scent of a wolf boy's blood and the heat of a feverish young body.

Zev (wolf boy)

@Val