Stone Circle All we are is an isle of flightless birds

Mentioning little else aside from this, because I'm unsure what the outcome of the Cyron rescue thread will be. For @Valette ?

He approached the den with tail hanging low and ears pressed against his head. The whereabouts of his other son, Burr, and his daughter, Rowana, were unknown. He hoped the alphess might have seen them, any sign at all, but there was that ever lingering fear that he'd failed as a father, that his two other children had gone off into the world on their own. That, or something even more awful had happened to them. The wolfdog could not stand the thought.

So he came to Valette's den with a deep frown on his face, eyes dull and expression exactly like that of a father who'd lost his children, because he worried that that was indeed what he was. He let out a bark of greeting, yet it lacked the enthusiasm he had held close to him when they first arrived here.