Lost Creek Hollow Redemption

He'd never planned on being a traveler. If not for a series of happenings, likely he'd still have been gladly living still in the Caldera. Getting lost, losing his family, and abruptly he'd been made to go where life took him. It had given him an understanding of both home and family as very transient concepts - neither meant forever, and he did not necessarily mind that.

It's good but so is this. He agreed. If you don't stay, you meet new, but you don't know them and they don't know you. Staying lets you learn. Gannet had an odd way about him that some of the packs he had met did not understand or appreciate, and it was good that here he had wolves who knew how he was and had come to accept him.

If you leave, will you come back? he asked, curious and hopeful. It sounded like it, but he wasn't sure. Perhaps she didn't even know.