At first Venn took some time to take in Enya's scent completely - and enjoy the petting he got. Oh yes, this stranger definitely knew how to read a wolf right, finding just the right spots...
But then she introduced her companions and Venn felt some confusion rise in him again. Those animals - the huge canine with the fire inside, the little one who indeed had been dancing between his feet, they all had their own scent...but at the same time they definitely were *Enya* too. The same instinct that bonded Venn to Rowellan made him feel the bond between Enya and her companions - those companions being part of Enya's essence, but still somehow they were their own.
Pepper, the one with the fire inside, while being part of Enya's essence, also had something that called 'alpha' written into him, something that made Venn alert. He knew very well that packs that consisted of two-legs had different, usually more complex structures from a wolf pack, and the vibe Venn caught from Pepper just proved that. The wolf also knew that trying to fight out anything about status in a pack with humans was a bad idea - so his body language showed that he recognized and respected Pepper's status, both as part of Enya and as alpha of this little group of companions.
Wuffels, on the other hand, was something completely different. After the first, cautious introduction Venn sniffed her over directly, then licked straight across the small dog's face. Yes, he could sense the power inside, same as the connection to Enya Wuffels shared with Pepper and all the others; but all the same the little one had just too much of a puppy inside to not trigger all the right instincts inside Venn's being. Whatever Wuffels did, as long as she wouldn't directly attack either Venn himself or Rowellan - and that didn't seem very probable, as the huntress had hunkered down too now, smiling and sending confidence and trust over to Venn, at one point looking up and grinning back at Enya - the little one would have the same free pass every whelp would have in any pack Venn had been running with.
'Iheyu's little static, though, made Venn jump back, sneezing and shaking his fur. This one definitely was new to him. "It's alright," Rowellan, who felt his confusion, calmed the wolf quietly. "It's part of who she is and she wants to show you." And it was questionable if she was talking about Enya or 'Iheyu right then. Those two *were* interwoven, after all...
Kilvanä wasn't much of a problem - Venn knew horses, knew to not come underfoot, and when he took up her scent he had grasped enough of the duality of companion and Enya to accept her as another facet of the whole, greeting her with a graceful wag of his long tail. Tayu on the other hand - Venn felt the bird's alertness more than he could read it (he hadn't much experience with birds besides hunting them), but the vibes coming from that one too made clear that Tayu too belonged to Enya's little pack, so he greeted the bird too - with a wolfish grin that said that arrow-shooting owls wouldn't be on Venn's menu for now.
And then there was Auryn. Auryn smelled of Enya, true enough; he was a member of the pack as much as everyone else here. But there wasn't a part of Enya's *essence* in the gryphon, not the way the others seemed to be like parts of her. The bond of Auryn just seemed to be more like the one Venn and Rowellan shared - close, founded on friendship and trust, but neither one part of the other. Plus - it was clear that he almost seemed to be a bit of an outsider, maybe a little bit like Venn himself. Running and hunting with a pack, but not connected by blood, just by free choice and loyalty.
Venn, after making his way from one of Enya's Soul-friends to the other, finally looked up to the Gryphon with a tilted head, favouring the creature with a woof and a wag, then he ran back to Rowellan who now was petting him too, scratching behind his ear. "I'm proud of you," she whispered in the wolf's ear. "You're figuring out things that took us a lot of words to explain."
She looked up to Enya. "Do you know that he feels some kind of kinship with Auryn?" she said. "He thinks they share a similar position in their packs."