renewal

A breath of relief washed over him when Theory turned to look at him and hurried toward him with a clearly excited and happy reaction to his reappearance. It pulled a smile to his lips and he was happy to reach out toward her as well, letting his muzzle brush hers as he went to press his nose to her cheek for a moment. Any worry he had over not being accepted back into Abaven had clearly been unfounded and he was just so happy to finally be home. There would be plenty for him to catch up on after all this time he was sure... after all, if he remembered correctly, Theory had been very freshly announced as Abaven's next leader before his accident. Looking at her now, he could see how much she had matured and he was pleased that she was still here to lead them.

His tail wagged gently behind him when she insisted that she was happy he had returned even before he could explain why he had been gone in the first place. "I had an accident while I was hunting near Auster," he explained, settling down onto his haunches. It was going to be a bit of a long story to tell and even though he was fully healed now, his muscles very clearly needed to be trained back to where they had once been. The trip back to Abaven had been a long and tiring one. "I slipped and fell over a cliff while I was chasing after some prey and ended up breaking my leg pretty badly. I tried to call for help, but I was pretty far from any of the packs. I was extremely lucky that someone from my mother's old pack happened to be close enough to hear me. She had been really close with my mother and seemed to figure that I was her son because of our markings being so similar."

"Their pack is just outside of Boreas near that end of the continent so she was able to get me back there so they could treat my leg, but I wasn't able to travel long enough to get back here right away. She insisted that I stay with them till I had healed. I hated having to be away from Abaven for so long, but they were able to take very good care of me. I got to learn more about my mother's past and even got to learn a little bit from their healers since I spent a lot of time with them." He chuckled softly and smiled. He was mostly just happy to be on the other side of all of this, but he hoped that perhaps there was at least something he could take from it.