Just Four Walls and a Roof

"Speech"

His father called to him over the ruins of ruina. His father. The thought was still strange to the boy who had known no sire, only his dam. And even her, he had no longer. He had known the pack had fallen, its creator had vanished to the abyss, and non knew his fate. He had expected, with the fall of this pack, that another chapter in his life would end. He had assumed that he would be alone once more.

Confronted with the realization that Tyranis had not abandoned him, the boy glided over the rocky terrain as through in a dream. Ty had waited for him, called to him even now, and he was not alone.
To Rai, Ty walked on water.

He could hear the anger and the strength in his father’s call, through Astraios did not fear him. He appeared at his father’s side without delay, standing there beside the taller man, as his eyes glinted over the pack lands. The lands that had been pack.

Rai did not speak often, saving his words as though they were a finite wonder, but if there was one man who would always be worth spending them on, it was Ty. “What’s next?” he asked his father, absolute in his loyalty.