A bedraggled looking bird - some sort of canary, perhaps, flutters from Mekel's shoulder across to Aravashnial's.
He mutters quietly as he comes in to land
"Seeing eye bird. More like a thinking brain bird. Now I'm steering some old blind elf around..."
Landing on the shoulder he speaks in a much louder, much more melodious and much slower voice
"Greetings Aravashnial! I am your new guide. You are in what appears to be a temporary cavern. There is a handsome young eleven Paladin named Nossac taking your arm, and a gorgeously plumed arcane familiar upon your shoulder, which is my good self. A little further away is a rich looking merchant, a pretty girl with a broken leg, a young man with a shield and a rather deadly young lady with a dueling sword. There's also a thoughtless young elf scrawling into a book after passing on his best friend like yesterday's laundry! There are two light sources, both magical, the first..."
Smidgen continues talking incessantly, if more quietly, to the elf.