Rising Sun Valley You're gonna miss me when I'm gone

He was distracted from the rather sad clump of herbs he inspected by something much more interesting. At the sound of his name and a semi familiar voice, he glanced up quickly, ears perked, as his sapphire gaze fell on the girl that had spoken. 

"F-Freyja?" He asked, surprised by her sudden appearance here, and thus for a moment adopting his mothers stutter. he say a little straighter, smiling softly as he beheld her a moment, how similar yet how different she was. He had grown too, having reached his full height now, a markedly average build. His tail wagged as he stood and neared her, smile growing for seemingly no reason at all.

She gave a stiff shake of her pelt, after which he spoke again, though surprise was no longer evident in his voice after he tilted his head curiously and asked, "What are you doing here?" A dozen other things he could have said came to find shortly after, but he felt as if he were fumbling for the right thing to say.
Odd.