Moonspear Meet the family

Nikai grimaced as Dirge said that he and Alya had come at an interesting time. He didn't know the details of any of it yet, and maybe that was for the best. Still, Nikai was pretty curious about it all. But how did one ask about these kind of matters? That's one way to put it, Nikai said with an awkward chuckle that didn't really break the ice as much as he'd hoped.

So you're, uh, Hydra's mate, right? Nikai hoped he'd got that right from the briefest of explanations Alya had given him before just taking off. Congratulations on the upcoming litter. Nikai really missed his baby siblings, but it would be nice having little ones around the mountain. He hoped their plans for returning home after summer still stood; Nikai hated disappointing his family, and though he'd decided when he first took off into the wilds with Alya that he would never let that stop him, he still felt the tug of home.