Blacktail Deer Plateau Will it take easier on you now

she had returned worn, bedraggled, and saddened, but osprey was alive, and lasher's heart was buoyant, for he had missed the woman, and grieved for her supposed loss. along with this quiet boy there bloomed the hope that a trek to the maplewood would put to rights the damage that had been wrought by their pack's failing toward saena -- dante disagreed, but the druid felt that the bonds of family extended beyond the borders of packlands.

a sudden deluge had pushed the beta male toward shelter; he skulked through the thicker part of the treeline, searching for a place to wait out the downpour. the largesse of a wide fir caught his eye -- he moved toward it, stopping only when his gaze was then greeted by the curled form of osprey.

he had not yet acclimated himself to her new form -- his heart twinged in sympathetic pain -- and lasher approached quietly. "osprey," came his gentle tones. "would you mind greatly if i joined you here?"