it is the way

Rhae had been adjusting to having a home to return to. It was strange, after all this time, to be able to say she had a home. It was weird to say that she had family to call home because in her eyes, that’s what a pack was: family. She imagined it was that way for everyone, that packs couldn’t differ that much from her Tribe or those that had surrounded her in her homeland. She felt she was adjusting well, all things considered, and Carlys seemed to have done so as well. That was just as important to her as settling in herself, because Carlys was the one constant she had in this life.

She’d been taking time to get to know the lay of the land, but that was not he goal right now. No, her goal instead was to seek out someone she saw as an old friend… at least an old friend in her eyes. Really, she didn’t have too many people she could consider friends, more of just people she had run into during her ventures as a loner… but he was a packmate now, and that meant something as well, right? She liked to think he was a friend at least. Carlys had taken to the skies searching for him, and Rhaegara was following along from the ground, tracking her wings in the sky as her friend guided her true.

Carlys swooped back down, settling on her shoulders as Rhae smiled softly. ’He’s up ahead, Rhae.’ She reported eagerly. She continued along until she caught sight of him, a soft smile on her features though she truly hoped she was not interrupting anything. “Cairo?” The question fell steadily from her maw. “I was wondering if you had a moment.”