The sturdy boy had been keeping to himself mostly, since his return to Ebony. He loved Valeriya and Kassander as much as he did Andromeda and Gaia and Nemesis but he was having a difficult time adjusting to his surroundings. It felt... wrong, to be there, without his mother or Raisa, or Sindri and Sigmarr and Svetlana. They felt incomplete. The lands were only half-remembered from his childhood and the land he remembered best - the rock garden - was banned for him as it was no longer Ebony land and he had promised to stay in the borders. He should be helping Valeriya with her pack - and wasn't that strange to think about, Valeriya running the pack already? He couldn't imagine his mother or his aunt giving one of them Olympus even if they hadn't been challenged - but instead he'd been brooding, hefty body flopped out by the border with his head on his paws and staring out of the lands. He didn't really feel a longing to go wander or anything, but he was feeling a bit... empty. He missed what they'd had when they were pups, the closeness of their mixed family and the love he'd always thought his mother and Raisa shared. Why did things have to change? Had any of it even been real to begin with?
