Cedar Sweep Plus One

For @Nico

Charley had gone back to the Glade after his adventure up to Alpine Lake, but now the sun was sinking low. Again, he struck from his home, but this time he only went right over into Cedar Sweep to explore. The half blind man padded on through the darker woods, sniffling and wondering what there was to find out here. Before he went far, he decided to howl for any more lone wolves around the area. So he did. 
Would anybody come? The numbers of the pack were going up and down, as happened with forming packs. Paikea, Estella, Skeet, and Darsal: four wolves he was wishing hard to come home to the Court. He hoped those who hadn't been seen recently were okay, and that they were just out hunting or scouting their new homeland. Would he welcome them back if he found out they'd really just left? How long until he assumed the worst? Who knows. Right now, keeping the pack afloat was all that mattered. To do that, they needed numbers, more paws to defend and work alongside them. More wolves that would fall under the Kings protection, his rule, to become the unbreakable family he so wished for.