"Dragonoid be damned. Someone is praising me for all this extra work!" claimed the racoon demi-human. It seemed she found Karna's general pessimism playfully acceptable, she had no doubt in her mind that her brother would still be alive when they returned, if only because she knew the lass Miki wouldn't let anything bad happen to him. Beyond all of that she was just happy for something abnormal to finally appear within her sights. This cut off place looked like the exact kind of secret workshop of some witch that they were likely looking for, she sighed her relief. "Fucking finally, we can..." there was a pause from her as the growl came from the doorway, and what was more the look of this direwolf was unlike any she'd encountered in the wild before now. He was a large white wolf with tuffs on his shoulder and red markings around his body. He even had similar tuffs of fur over the back of his giant paws. "SHIT!" the raccoon girl stopped her tail wagging anxiously. It wasn't that she was out right afraid, it was that she didn't expect such a creature to be within these forests. Soon though a voice would appear from within and she'd look out at the pair.
A dark tanned woman with large breasts in a black form-fitted mini-dress with a white winged lab coat appeared in the door way. Her cyan locks moved in the breeze and she pushed glinting glasses up onto her delicate nose as she took in the two and reached for the angry dog giving it a gentle stroke. It seemed that Karna's words hadn't calmed it at all, but she would. "Now Youko, we've been through this... sit down and wait," she said pointing to the side where the giant wolf padded off to still looking at the pair a bit skeptically. "He's looking for his master. And all who have crossed the void reek of free magic like her... perhaps he sensed the connection?" she questioned rhetorically. "Come, I might be able to provide you with what you seek," she said moving further in. If the pair followed they would cross Youko's path and he'd give both of them a sniff, wagging its tail for Hikari but managing a low growl at Karna for reasons unknown. Within this space there were several golden glowing hologram like projections, they seemed to be maps and globes with features on them not unlike those symbols used in the game Age of Eternity. On the tables were various plans, small pieces of gold, gems and tools of various magical basis. There were bones and skeletons lining the walls of all sorts of magical creatures and several cabinets of locked and closed natures with glass fronts that seemed to contain objects made by this woman. One case contained vials of fluids which glowed eeirrely and gave off their own magical energy.