Cerulean Cape We turn our headphones all the way up and we press play

He slammed into his mother with a strangled laugh, wrapping his neck around her slighter one with the crushing force of a bear's hug. Lucas hadn't fully realized how much he missed his mother until that precise moment, when his heart felt fit to burst and his eyes were wet without him knowing it. He sifted through the smells in her fur the same way she did his, but he didn't take much notice of any of her new scents. He focused primarily on the familiar, warm smell of her, which was coincidentally the smell of home in his mind.

I've missed you too, he breathed into the side of her face, then pulled back his head slightly. He was larger than her now, nearly equal to his father in height and stature, but she stilled seemed to loom ahead of him the way she had when he was small. Where did you guys go? My friends and I went to Bearclaw Valley to visit but... no one was there.