Sea Lion Shores the sun is gone, but i have a light

she found herself enthralled anew, reddening beneath the grateful brightness of her scarlet fur when he offered to show her islands. "i would like that," came her soft rejoinder. mona realized the two of them had not yet introduced themselves. perhaps she had already realized it, but somehow it was unimportant beneath the soft, interested thrall of the seawolf's gaze. 
lucas. she had not forgotten; mona's shy expression cleared into one of somber inflection. "one of my alpha's children disappeared. we have been searching for him; i finally offered to go farther." the little scout was beginning to believe their efforts were useless. after all, if the boy had been close to bearclaw, he would have heard them, would have come home. "my heart broke for her," mona whispered in a shattered voice, turning eyes now prickling with tears upon the calming lap of the sea.