days fell away with nothing to show (EBONY)

Max had done little more than lay around and be worthless since Callisto had quite literally run away from him. He hadn't expected to get that reaction from her, Kassanders punishment had been nothing in comparison. Sure he had been stripped of a rank, but Calli meant more to him than that. Much more but based on her reaction to his admission, he would assume she wanted nothing to do with him. When Kass would call for a pack meeting, Maximous would have to peel himself from the ground beneath him and make his way to where the boy stood.

Kassander hated him and Callisto, as far as he knew, did too. Maybe he shouldn't have left home and his many, many cousins. Sadly it was to late for that kind of thinking as if he were going to think about that it should have been within the first weeks of his absence, not after he had been gone for more than a year. He had seen no one else with the healers mark in this land so as far as he knew, he had no family. No one that cared for him as such and no one for him to care for. Every time he tried to care for some one it backfired on him. Ebony was becoming less and less like home and more like a prison with every passing day. He had joined with pride and hope, if he left it would be with a blackened heart.

Upon his arrival Max would lay beneath the shade of a rock, at the edge of hearing range. The man did not wish to speak with anyone or even look at anyone. Blue eyes would not even look at Kassander but rather they would aim unseeing at a small rock just two feet from him.