Wapun Meadow Time can heal

Time healed all wounds.
Except the wound left by realising what a failure he was as a grown man. Reborn into a harder existence than he'd grown up in, one where he was little more than a disappointment to everyone. His sons were gone, his daughter hated him, wife dead and the rest of his family moved on. The way Dawn had greeted him was a dose of reality, that he needed to stay away and figure his life out on his own. Since leaving Whitebark the loneliness had faded in the routine of survival and caught up in the season he'd slept with a woman, a nameless face who'd taken the first move and seduced him. It hadn't amounted to anything, there wasn't any sentiment shared and she had left him there on his own when it was done. Being tossed aside made him think of Steph, her smile and warmth haunting him until his paws dragged him back toward Teekon and toward Easthollow. The last he knew she had vanished with his son but if there was any place she would eventually return to it would be that pack. 

Deep in thought about if Valette would even let him stay Sunny entered the meadow and his heart stopped. Sunlight on sleek black fur, the glimpse of green eyes...like a fairytale she appeared before him. "Steph" he gasped stepping out into the flowers, striding toward her tail wagging as his heart raced afraid she'd turn and it wouldn't be her in the end.