Howling Wolves

Hearing some commotion and bark around him, boy slowly woke up with a small yawn - which he quickly hid with his palm. Rubbing sleep out of his eyes, he could hear someone saying something about turning him into luggage. It certainly was... a new experience. Fuyue never met anyone willing to casually grab him and drag him along on some adventure. Interested, he glanced at the speaker with one eye - while the second one was still rubbed by his palm. "You know, grabbing people and carrying them may not be the best idea. What if they are bad guys?" He questioned the girl with bored voice, while taking in her appearance. He saw her earlier. He proposed going together on a mission after all, so not remembering her would be a bit mean. They didn't really have time to get to know each other though. Fuyu never met spider-girl - at least not a friendly one - so she certainly was unique in his eyes. That and she was blind, from what he deducted. Mage kinda wondered if her blindness was genetical, or if something happened. "I don't think I introduced myself to you. You can call me Fuyue, and I recently joined this guild. Were you always blind?" He asked without any kind of pity or guilt. In his voice girls could detect something more simple. Plain curiosity. Nothing more, nothing less.

The blonde guy suddenly remembered that, aside from spider-girl, one more person from the guild agreed to accompany him on this quest. Focusing his eyes on Leila, he instantly saw that her "features" were hidden from the view by a hoodie and coat. Was he too aggressive last time because of his love of fluffy things? "Hey Leila. You've been good? No one else attacked you because of wolf ears and tail?" He asked with a mischievous smile, honestly doubting that anyone has beaten his reaction. Then... well, then he saw a creature that was near her. Fluffy, and probably magical, wolf that barked at him earlier. His body went rigid and he quickly glanced at the strongest girl in this group. " Can I?" Fuyue didn't think that he needed to voice his eagerness to pet and hug this greenish wolf. He was sure that Vergious already expected his reaction after last time.

"Oh right! We were supposed to do this 'mission'." Fuyue realized after a minute or two. How could he forget? After all, he was the one that asked them to join him. He told fluffy creature with a stare, that it was her/his fault for distracting him. "Okay, which would be the tallest mountain around?" He asked both girls, hoping that one of them would know where to go. They could grab wood needed to build a campfire, and maybe food if they were lucky, on the way.

When Leila said that this is not wild west, Fuyue guessed randomly that maybe Talea was from there. Honestly, he didn't have any idea what it referred to, but it wasn't shocking. Spending most of his life alone in wilds, the blonde had limited knowledge of... world-map, so to say. Hearing Song's comment about being a guild member, he scratched sheepishly his head. " I guess that is true... you can never be sure about newcomers though." It would be nice to think that just because someone is in the same guild, they wouldn't hurt other members. Fuyue however, had no doubts that situation like that already happened somewhere.
Hearing a short version of Talea's story, boy nodded a few times - forgetting that she couldn't see him. "I see... so being blind is basically trait of your race. And you were military trained as a child... I can't say I ever heard of your race, but's that probably because snowstorms are more my kind of thing." He commented without asking further questions about her. They will have enough time for that later.
"What am I? Well... I'm a pretty normal human." Blondie said chuckling at the way she phrased that question. " I'm native of Iceberg actually. I lived like a normal kid in one of small villages there. Then some kind of beast full of evil magic attacked my hometown and destroyed it. I was saved by snow mage, who killed the monster. Seeing something special in me, he took me as his apprentice. After a few years, I decided to travel and see the world. Find some kind of goal in life or something I wanted to do. Because of an accident, I need to relearn magic from scratch." He explained his story with thinking face. Girls couldn't know it, but he skipped a few important and more personal details. They didn't need to know them, and mentioning them would make his story much, much longer.

When Leila answered his question with a snicker, he gasped. "Me? A threat? You are hurting my feelings, miss silver wolf." That being said, he grabbed his heart theatrically with fake hurt shown on his face. Considering that Melon jumped at him second later, he abandoned his show and started petting wolf who accepted his plea. "I'm sure you are as strong as your master, aren't you? Maybe even stronger." His last words were accompanied by teasing wink in Leila's direction.

He listened to silver-haired girl's suggestion with a calculating expression. When she said the part about lying, Fuyue chuckled. He would never. Aside from him being brutally honest, it would be bad if someone in the guild could detect lies. "Okay. So the highest mountain is out. Leila, since you shouldn't really help us, could you point us in the right direction to this peak you mentioned?" Then he turned to Song. "I can cook, so it won't be a problem. Your skin in foraging will be a big help. You can search for food on the way, while I take care of finding some branches to make a campfire. Then we will only have to howl, and bam, mission complete." Fuyue said with a clap.

If no one refused his plan, he would quit their guild and started walking in the direction hopefully given by senior guild member accompanying them. Considering he spent most of his life in very cold regions, his body was used to the climate of this land. He wouldn't freeze over quickly and his clothes were on the warmer side. It allowed him to travel in peak's direction without bigger issues. On the way, he would do as he said. With his eyes, he would search for tree branches dry enough to build a campfire. And small stones. Fuyue was used to living like that, so he should be able to find them easily enough - even if the weather here made it very hard. Some needed to be chopped off. Thanks to that, he had to use his special ability Blade of the Goddess. It was given to him thanks to his lineage. It was glowing, a crescent-shaped sword made of pure light.

On way to the peak, after cutting one branch off and adding it to the stack of wood and stones he carried under his arm, he turned towards spider girl interested. "I wonder... how do you see the world with your magic? Do you see life energy, ethernano or something else?" It was a question born when he looked at his blade. Leila, without doubt, could see it, but could Talea?