with my hat in my hands

She’d been grabbing a drink at the stream when the call came. Cairo hadn’t had a chance to tell her about his brother’s return to Boreas. However, something in her recognized the voice. Regrets?

Either way, she was swiftly a glowing white blur arrowing in toward the voice flat out. She only checked herself in the last stride, and that was to gather herself to fling the young man into a tight hug around the neck if he hadn’t stumbled back in surprise as the sudden appearance of his former alpha.

Okay, so maybe she was more emotional this winter, but there was definitely a choked noise very close to a sob as she released the now grown man and stepped back to look at him. She drank in the sight of the man, reassuring herself that he wasn’t just a rather solid hallucination before naked relief raked a breath from her lungs.

“I feel like I’ve failed you so very greatly… I’m so, so, so sorry, Geo.”

The words were heartfelt, choked out as she looked at the marks his life had left on him. “Who did this?”

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think