O' Brother, Where Art Thou?

Excellent, Excellent.

Burke was just burying a carcass for his pack to eat from later. Ever since his bloat incident he was far more careful with the proportions he ate. Even while being rather busy with his mate's heat didn't make him eat more. Meldresi was sure to keep track of his eating habits. Who would have thought, Burke, mated and settled down with a female. But Meldresi was a great female, his dark queen. She was the sorceress everyone talked about, even outside Teekon. After all he had heard about Meldresi when he was a traveling lone wolf. That felt like ages ago. It was more than half a year. Damn. Look at him now, Dark King. 

That is when a howl sounded through the dark woods. He looked up. Did that sound familiar? Burke trotted forward, his docked tail held high. As was right for a king! He moved to the borders he marked this morning. The tank of a male kept his casual trot, using the shadows as a cover one learned by being a member of the Dark Brotherhood. The red paw print was fresh on his shoulder now Meldresi was back to his side. Burke felt proud carrying it. He studied the stranger in the shadows until he realized this wasn't a stranger. It was the wolf he teamed up with when he was a lone wolf, they would look for Black Feather together, they got through those damn winter months together.

Burke appeared with a smirk on his face from the shadows. "So you finally found Black Feather. It took you more than six months to arrive here, Akela," Burke spoke, his pale eyes looking over the male and his scarred face. It was good to see him alive, he wasn't sure how well the wolf was doing.