Stone Circle New Faces to meet

When the howl reached his ears, Kove had risen as quickly as his body allowed but, ultimately, hadn’t made it there quite as quickly as he would have liked (and he silently cursed his body for this). By the time he was able to see the idling babes, there was already a group present, many of which he did not have names to match to their faces. No matter, he eased his way in close enough to observe the newest additions, yet hung back enough so as not to impose on anyone else’s personal space. Each child had a name and a face, and he admired them from afar, the faintest traces of a smile emerging.

These ones, he thought, these ones I will live for. Despite his past, despite everything he’d done and missed out on, he had been accepted into the family. Now, he decided, he would change what he could not before. The thought was the final push needed for a smile to fully appear across his maw, eyes bright with admiration.