Just as Athos was about to open his mouth to say something, a sound could start to be heard from in front of them. It was still a bit of distance away but the torch Athos had in his hand would illuminate the ground before them. Ray was preparing to step into sticky blood, suggesting that it wasn't exactly new but not old enough to be dried yet, either. The sound was an unmistakable sound; someone digging around inside of guts before tearing some out, then the sickening sound of someone chewing almost rabidly on whatever they had pulled out. But slowly this had turned into a chorus of sorts, suggesting there was more than one of whatever was up ahead.
As they got closer, Athos would gesture for Ichi and Jay to stop moving, having to tap Ray on his shoulder for him to stop moving and making sure to do so. From where he stopped them, the edge of Athos' light, granted by the torch, let them see a fraction of what was happening.
Just on the outside of the flame's light was a hunched over figure, which would have looked human, if not for the sick and dead looking blue color of skin. The thing was crouched on it's feet, it's heels pressing back against the skin tightly hugging it's formed as if trying to rip out the flesh. Of course, blood came from the thing that was being eaten, which was the destroyed and torn apart corpse of a deer. There was only one body and one deer, though, so there had to be more where they couldn't see, where the other sources of sound were.
Slowly the smells of dead deer and dead bodies could be smelt, especially by Ichirou and his strong nose. They had come up to their first encounter. Deciding to let Ray fully take the reigns on how to go about this, he'd perk a brow if the man had looked back at him, his face easily saying without speaking,'Well, what exactly do we do?'