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OOC: And they meet again! >
Before heading southward, Darkness had decided to explore the territories to the northwest. He wanted to scale as much land as he possibly could, simply for the sake of getting out and looking around. This morning, however, he had realized that he was virtually out of dye. So the dark man had walked through the forest, following a path that seemed to lead to nowhere, and found himself in a village. It was nice, quiet, and cozy, and he wouldn't have minded deciding to stay in one of these houses... if it weren't for the fact that the closest source of water he had seen was a river. If he was going to continue being a rock collector, he couldn't stay here.
Still, he decided it couldn't hurt to poke around a bit. He was running out of dye; maybe he could find some here. So Darkness began a short quest of finding dye, but he was disappointed when he checked nearly every house - or so he thought - and found absolutely nothing. With a slightly frustrated huff, Darkness adjusted the satchel around his shoulder and started to head out of the town. Suddenly a familiar scent caught his nose. "Inferni," he muttered. He had been near the coyote pack's territory recently and sent away by a couple of the members, Io and Aeron, and also met a loner named Jaden. It was the largest amount of canines he had ever been around and talking to at the same time, and he loved it.
Curious, he began to follow the smell, eventually making his way to a small area near a collapsed shed. It took him a moment to realize that the figure before him was Io Berlin herself; he had last seen her in Secui last and wasn't used to her standing on two legs. "Hi, Io!" he called out with a friendly wag of his tail. "What brings you over here?"
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