[the noises the mist wolves are making are growing distant again but also somehow louder at the same time? this is turning into that sequence in FF12 where you accidentally end up drawing like five t-rexes chasing you through the early game desert

they do have a momentary bigger problem when they pass into another clearing and a horrible shadowy Court fusion of wolves and deer and birds rounds on them from the other side though. oh fuck apparently those are harder to smell]