I Could Be Like The Cool Kids

Walk | Talk | Think

Eirik felt a sudden guilt surge up within him, and his black-tipped ears tucked backward against his head. Amarant had been here this whole time? But that was so close! The territories of his new home even shared borders with this one, but at no point, not even during the long march from where Secretua once resided to the pack lands, had he seen signs of his cousin's presence or noticed his telltale scent. "Seriously?" he asked, feeling entirely dumbfounded, but more so frustrated. For months they had practically been neighbors, and yet neither of them had known it. Still floored by the information, Eirik could only shake his head in disbelief and confusion.

Amar seemed to have been considerably preoccupied during their separation, and a well of concern and sympathy filled him as he was informed of Colten's absence. Though he had never been as close with the reserved one of the two brothers, the pale grey Fiori wolf had still wanted the best for them both. To know that Colten had disappeared on his own, leaving Amarant without a word to spend countless days awaiting his return, only made the short distance that separated them even more aggravating. Eirik made himself draw in a breath and release it slowly, willing his frustrations with his other cousin and the whole situation to leave him before he spoke in a voice that sounded calmer to his ears. "I'm sorry." What else could he say? "You don't...know where he might have gone?" he asked, desperately seeking some hopeful spin that he could put on things. "How long as he been missing?"