GODS AND MONSTERS

sometimes in dreams of impulse I still hear

kassander xanilov

miss atomic bomb

Kassander, pawing through the dried herbs he'd collected from the pack's healers to aid in memorizing them, stopped suddenly. His ears pricked up as he stared toward the border. Why did that call sound so familiar? It tickled something in his memory, almost like his own mother's call... OH. Gray-tipped tail gave a sharp, involuntary wag as he made the realization. That was his other mother! Virgil had come back to Ebony. But his tail stilled as a sudden worry struck him. Was something wrong with his golden siblings? Was that why she was back? That sickness had been really bad...

Hopping immediately to his paws he set out at a gallop toward the border, but as soon as he spotted the Olympus wolves waiting there he skidded to a stop in relief. All four of Virgil's children were there, though they were all very different from the last time he'd seen them they still looked like they were all right. At a more serene pace he closed the distance, but none of his blood siblings or his own mother had shown themselves yet, and his less than social nature unaccountably overcame him and he stopped a short distance away as his mind went rather blank. What could he say? It had been so long since he'd seen any of them. All he could manage was a softly shy "Hi guys."