Sleepless I dream of the day [m]

:D

This time was necessary, Dante knew, and therefore he was not in a huge rush to get home. Taking the time to organize his thoughts and feelings was becoming increasingly important as well as increasingly hard to do. It was like untangling a web, pulling each knot in the mess and untangling it. He had gotten through very few of them.

Of all the ones to come upon him that day, it had to be Charon. He had no great love for the boy and knew the feeling was mutual. Not only that, but he abruptly put forward a subject that the alpha had managed so far to get by without - Osprey. Hearing her name, and his own failure, so pressed made him flinch internally. He managed to hide the reaction before it could express, but his voice wasn't particularly gentle when he gave the news. He didn't owe the Stavanger wolf anything, but as a friend of Osprey, Dante relented.

"No. I didn't." He did not turn to face the younger wolf, but remained seated where he was. Perhaps the wolf would move on.