Endings and Beginnings

Corbie glanced sympathetically at Stjarna as Alarr did. It wasn't hard to read between the lines there - they'd perhaps found someone, but not a someone that would be true family to the young wolf. Alarr, it seemed, was more than willing to fill that need, and stated his intention to adopt the girl - something Tornach had never chosen to do, since Corbie had a mother who'd raised her, and he hadn't wanted to supplant that family when he'd taken her in after her mother's death. She'd always appreciated that about him, but if she hadn't remembered her mother so dearly, or if she had been a bad mother or abandoned her, she'd have liked to have been adopted by him, so she felt her heart swell with happiness for Stjarna that she'd found the family she truely deserved. "Of course you are welcome here," she told Stjarna gravely. "I'd be proud to have you as one of Avalon's hunters. I know you had been training hard with Alarr here before your journey."