Cross my heart and hope to die

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This place sure was nice, but it was awfully lonely at times. Birds could only be entertainment for so long. He licked his jaws clean of the remnants of his dinner while he looked out over the trees that surrounded the marsh, watching as the sun lit up the sky in shades of pale orange and red. It would probably be a few more hours before it was completely dark, but the sunset had begun none of the less. He sighed and pulled his huge form onto his paws, shaking out his golden, slate blue marked coat till every leaf or piece of dirt was shaken free of it and the fur laid neatly along his muscled form once more.

He tossed around the idea of going to the pack where his mother resided yet again. It was really only lonely nights like these that he considered it. In the back of his mind he knew it would be simple to go across to the edge of the estuary. Arcanum was just on the other side of the river after all, but something kept him here on the small island with the huge willow tree in its center. Shrugging it off, he turned and slipped past the willow branches before flopping down onto his stomach beside the thick tree trunk. Who knew, maybe some other reason to join his mother would show itself before too long.