How long has it been?
01-05-2017, 10:41 PM
It felt a bit haunting to be back in Boreas. A sigh left him as he looked around the plateau. The kids were all tucked in for the night. Getting them to go to sleep had been a challenge, but they finally settled down. The sun wasn't quite all the way below the horizon just yet and he needed every moment of quiet in its rays he could get. He sat facing the setting sun, keeping one ear tipped backward to listen for any movement from the makeshift den he had found for them to use for the night. As he watched the sky darken with reds and purples he slowly let his eyes close as his throat tightened around a lump that was forming there. His ears flattened against his head for a moment while he tried to draw in a slow breath through his nose to calm himself down again. He hadn't had much of a chance to process it all. Before he had really gotten a chance to get over Sere's death, or really even the disappearance of their family, he had found Lillian. She had been his distraction. Then came the pups. He had never expected to be a father and now... here he was. Lillian was gone and now he was left trying to be a father. Lillian was a natural at being a mother. She had been so wonderful to them. He couldn't tell if he was doing the same. He sighed again and slowly opened his eyes. It was then that a strangely familiar scent caught his attention. He froze still for a moment, thinking that he might just be imagining it. Surely that wasn't too much of a stretch. Being back in these lands after all this time, losing Lillian, dealing with the kids. That was a lot of stress. Wouldn't that be more than enough reason to imagine a scent? |
