Ravensblood Forest suddenly he's up and gone

Things happened much too fast for Dragomir, too. His eyes had settled narrowly on the dark, ruddy-haired child standing behind Vercingetorix, but they snapped back to his father when the man began to shout. What are you doing out here, Vercingetorix demanded. Why aren't you in the mountains? The boy, dark just like his sire but easily differentiated by the sprinkling of silver throughout his coat, flinched back. His ears fled for the safety of his ruff and his eyes were blown wide with shock and despair.

Between the appearance of another pup in his father's company and the way Vercingetorix said those things, Dragomir was struck with the intense feeling that he wasn't wanted. There had been fury in him, too, the fury that would have made him a fine Drakru warrior, but it deflated completely in the wake of that feeling, replaced with emptiness. But only for a second; it came roaring back so loud his ears practically buzzed.

Vercingetorix's tearful descent into an embrace was therefore baffling to the boy, whose face was wet with tears of his own—not the exhausted relief and fear that Vercingetorix's were born of, but the deep and unsettling melancholy that came with feeling suddenly unworthy—and he shoved away from his sire with a growl. Liar! he sobbed in a strained voice, with his ears still pressed flat to his head and his tail curling indignantly for the sky. He was still little compared to Vercingetorix, but he was much larger than he had been and he had been distressed by his father's absence so long that he felt positively mighty with it.

You said you would come back before and when you did you left again, and you said you'd come back again and you didn't and then we had to LEAVE and then MOM LEFT TOO, he blurted in a voice that was quick to crescendo into shrill shrieking. A temper tantrum of epic proportions. Of course, Aurëwen hadn't left the way Vercingetorix did, but anxious Dragomir had come to expect that leaving meant not returning, so when she had left them with someone unfamiliar instead of leaving them on their own like she normally did, he had assumed the worst. That was why he had taken off after her and ended up here instead.

YOU LEFT US AND REPLACED US WITH SOMEONE ELSE, hollered Dragomir, who was full-on bawling now, and now his attention cracked back to Reyes and his teary hazel eyes burned. His legs wobbled unsteadily as he pushed forward a few steps, flagging his tail rigidly skyward and sobbing, WHO ARE YOU?