a storm is brewing

anyone is welcome :-)

The young Beta didn't really have much time to stray away from his duties overly much. However, even after he had given up searching for Atreyu and Jorunn, he could not help but stray into the neutral territories beyond Stavanger Bay and search for them, call for them until his voice dried out; look everywhere. All the while, Ragnar's words resounded in his head -- they're probably dead. That's what he had said about Kevlyn. That's what he was saying now, even from beyond the grave, about Jorunn and Atreyu. Charon knew that it was a hopeless case, but he could not help but keep trying.

It wasn't that Charon had purposely travelled to Redtail Rise, where Gunnar now lived. It was just that while he was searching for Atreyu and Jorunn, he somehow ended up following the journey Gunnar had described when he'd left the Bay. Charon had set Gunnar from his mind, had set the anger towards his older brother from his mind... Until he found himself nearly upon the Rise's borders, and he felt his hackles rise. What would Gunnar say when he found out what horrible things had happened in his absence? He could've prevented them, maybe, had he been here. "Stupid coward," Charon muttered to himself while he closed in on the borders, although he himself didn't yet know with what intent.

Once he reached the borders and found the scent of mostly unknown wolves thick upon the land (he didn't remember Saena's scent particularly, as he'd been small when he'd met her), his pace calmed down but his anger did not. He clenched his jaw as he halted a moment, not wanting to intrude, and then started sidelong along the borders, sniffing them out and trying to find traces of Gunnar's scent. He could just call, of course, but Charon didn't really want to see his brother. He was still angry. He'd probably say or do dumb things. He really needed to just turn around and leave Gunnar to his precious new life.

But he couldn't, and so Charon trailed the borders, his posture neutral, a stormy look upon the ten-months-old's face.