California, rest in peace

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Leo's ivory ear flicked back as a hint of a word caught his attention, along with the sound of rapid paw steps. He turned around just in time to see his sister throwing herself at him, her chest hitting his with a solid thump. A small woosh of air left his lungs and his wide, surprised sapphire gaze blinking several times out of surprise before realized what had happened and connected that this was his sister Amalia. A wide grin broke out over his muzzle and he laughed, nuzzling her affectionately before she stumbled back to right herself again. "Well you must not have searched the whole world, silly, or you would have found me," he teased, chuckling while he glanced her up and down, glad to see that she was doing well even though it did amuse him just a bit that the last time he had seen her he was probably quite a bit smaller than her and now the tables were reversed.

He was truly overjoyed to see her, his tail wagging happily behind him and a huge smile on his muzzle. "I've been exploring," he explained simply in response to her question of where he had been. "I even wandered out of Alacritis for a bit and looked at so much of the world. But I missed you and our other siblings too much, I had to come back. So here I am!" He was happy to have such joyous reactions from both of his sisters. Now if only he could get such reactions from his brothers, then his search for them would be easy. "What about you, sis? What have you been up to?"