Stone Circle like a rollercoaster

It was hard to get his mind off Keoni and Nikai hoped he wasn't coming off too distracted for it. Turned out that the guy was fairly new, which explained why he hadn't seen him around before. Maybe they had seen each other at some meeting or other, but if they had then Nikai didn't remember. "Nice to meet you, Birk," said Nikai with a genuine smile. "It's gotta be hard to get to know everyone when you're new." He'd spent most his life living here but even to Nikai it was tricky sometimes to get to know everyone personally.

"Are you from somewhere 'round here, or did you come from further away?" Nikai then asked, curious where Birk had come from. He himself hadn't been in many packs, though he had often dreamed of leaving to find another pack. His anchor had often been Keoni -- when she'd got hurt -- and then Valette's upcoming pups, and now he wasn't in any physical state to be travelling long distances, though he found himself often dreaming of visiting Alya and her sisters or moving to a pack nearby to her still. But he wasn't able to right now.