we survive, it's what we do [ABAVEN SPRING MEETING]

He was... still in shock. Time had passed since the volcano erupted, but the skies were still dark with ash, and spring didn't look like spring here in the mainland. It didn't look like home. It didn't look right at all. He was here, it shouldn't have been home... it was gone. And he was afraid to venture further; all the lands he grew up exploring were directly impacted by the volcano. It would be all gone now. Destroyed. Or buried under ash. The past several months had been hard, and he was still shakey at the thought of it. Still though, he managed to arrive back at the mainland, though he hadn't realized how much time he had spent trudging through ash until he realized it had been quite a while after Theory's call to Abaven. With a start, he turned towards where he knew the meeting was, and he loped over to it. "I'm here. I..." he trailed off, shaking his headbriefly as he gestured to the world around him. Hopefully they'd understand.