catch up

It took an embarrassingly long amount of time to remember to check Rudy's room. It was the first place she should have looked, instead of the... thousandth? It felt like that, anyway. She wasn't always the sharpest tooth in the wolf's mouth.

But she did, eventually, and voila! She found him, hanging around nearby. He was looking out at the night sky. She couldn't be sure it was really night, though. It was always dark now, so she just tried to sleep on a similar schedule to everyone else. She'd stuck to her routine more than she'd expected. But she liked it.

He called out and greeted her, wagging his tail. She couldn't help but smile a little wider. "It's been too long," she agreed. "I've been well. What about you?" No need to go into the details of all of the things she wanted to tell him yet. There'd be time for that.

"Speech"