Calling All Family

Regulus listened curiously as the new faces arrived. An older female who was mostly white with a brown right ear and left paw, and a young male, though still older than he and his sisters. Both had blue eyes, and they smelled similar. Family. His mother confirmed that conclusion. So this was his aunt.. Epiphron, he recalled, from the stories his mother and grandmother would tell about the rest of the family. Epiphron, Chrysanthe, and Syrinx. He recalled that there had been three other names mentioned, and it took a moment of thought before he found them again. Eos, Neo, and Preston. The stories surrounding those three names had always held a sad note in his grandmother’s voice. His mother had been too young to have met them, because they had disappeared, and wasn’t there something about the name Neo? Memories of the heart break in his grandmother’s eyes as she spoke about that wolf.

He was pulled from the thoughts by his mother’s voice telling them to go play. He looked around as Báine greeted the others in her typical bubbly exuberance. He pulled himself to his paws and gave himself a shake, the links of his necklace and pendent jingling softly and grinned at the male. ”I’m Regulus.” He offered, though his mother had made the introductions already. But she hadn’t introduced this male by name. Maybe hoping that Aunt Pip would make an introduction, too? Cousins. He had cousins. Family.