Stone Circle Why do they leave?

"I miss him, too," Day admitted, remembering his first, tumultuous meeting with the man. That was in the past, now, and Day had a lot of respect for the beta. Ex-beta. His heart went out to Valette, who'd clearly know the man even better and had love him better for it. These were the times that he wished he could tell the future, but Day just didn't have all the answers.

For now, though, he figured he knew just enough.

"What's your best memory of him?" he asked softly, hoping she would play along. "Your favorite. I want you to think real hard about that and then tell me when you have it, okay?"

There were a lot of things that could happen to one wolf in the big, wide world. There were a lot of ways to get lost or hurt. There were a lot of good reasons that someone might not come back - but he knew for sure that one of them was out of the question, at least in this particular case.