Keep me locked up in your broken mind

Her voice. It rang out around him, and his ears flattened against his head. Zephyra was not one to get emotional - she never had been. And yet, here, her voice cracked. Shakily, she asked about their mother, and he felt tears pool in his eyes. he had never cried - not once, not when she disappeared. Not when he found out she was sick. But now, Mama was gone. Kaitlyn was missing. Mama had been gone for a season now, Kaitlyn only a few days - but it more than broke the boy. He choked on a sob, looking up at his sister with tear-filled eyes. "G-gone." He shuddered, swallowing, trying to regain control - he couldn't break down, he couldn't. Tears in his eyes, he looked back up to his younger sister.

"She - her illness - it broke her. She ran. She didn't even recognize me as her son." He had held all the pain when announcing it, but now the pain in his voice was audible. The fact he was not recognized... that hurt more than anything. "I couldn't stop her, she ran from me... I haven't seen her since. And... I tried to take over the pack, and now even that's failing." He knew it was the illness, but a part of him couldn't help but feel it was his fault for failing to take care of the pack that she hadn't returned, as irrational as it was. And yet, it lingered in his body. His fault for failing the pack that Kaitlyn had left, though that too he knew was irrational.

"Kaitlyn... she's gone too. She disappeared three days ago. I had hoped... that she had just wandered off as she was prone to do, but I don't think so anymore. Two other wolves of the pack also left. There's so few of us - I don't know what to do." He had to go to the other packs, and see if she was there. Maybe they had seen her, maybe they would know where she was. He'd start with Donostrea, even though he knew they likely would bring her back had they seen her, with her Borealis scent. But still.