Finding what is lost

Tea in her paws, he curled back around her again, leaning lightly against her as she drank. He wasn’t quite ready for the day to begin yet, and her slow and bleary movements told him she felt much the same way. A part of him didn’t want to go back to the pack… back to reality. To the struggles and heartbreak that seemed to surround him of late. Here he was warm, surrounded by her soft fur and the scents of her.

He lay there for a time, before he licked her cheek, and got slowly to his paws again. His falcon glided through the cavern then, a rabbit in her talons. She landed by the two wolves, and the Warlord took the bounty and passed it over to Ignita. “Eat.” He commanded her. Padding a little ways through the cavern as she presumably did so. He had a hunch that Charlie would not be found in this cavern. That he would have stumbled over them by now if he was to be found. They hadn’t exactly been quiet…

He returned to her side, and seated himself beside the smaller wolf. “Is there anything else you wanted to explore about this cave?”