Arrow Lake To measure the meaning can make you delay

The silent communication between them made him a little wary.  He'd been firmly rooted in reality recently, but it sparked a silent question about whatever witchery that might have been.  It wasn't like he'd ended up being close enough to anyone to ever really be able to ask or answer something that way -- his sisters had been thick as thieves and he was always the odd duck.  Whatever.  He wasn't staying here. Just a few questions, he could go, and if they wanted to go bewitch half the planet, he didn't care as long as it wasn't his half.  Mother and kid or whatever they were -- he'd be ok not seeing them again... Just in case.

His ears tipped slightly back, but he did his best to keep his expression otherwise stoic.  Nah, he was tough stuff, not to be preyed on.  A drawn out exhalation before he spoke with a shake of his head, I told her if anything happened while I was gone to come here.  And if she's not at Elysium and she's not here...  Shrug.  She was gone.  He was alone, a bitter pill for sure.   Maybe his mother had found her and taken her away, just like before?  Had her not seeing Solomon been a lie?  Maybe it was only his own suspicion that saved him from whatever fate had befallen them.  We're gonna go out on a limb and assume Atwood didn't say anything about the bear attack, or at the very least that Mal wasn't going to think it was something important for another pack to know in case some adult shows up with the news in that thread.