Firefly Glen but when i go to sleep at night, don't you call my name

@Tiercel

Had he missed his home, his mother? Would Laurel be happy to see him, would she finally love him? His fear of his reception kept him from returning to Easthollow, and like a revenant displaced, Riley roamed the wilderness.

He had spent months alone. Months chasing the vivid image of Merrick's cyclopsian stare from the back of his mind. Months learning how to fend for himself, months struggling to simply exist, to survive. He was lean and hard from his weeks sojourning, and never had Easthollow looked so inviting as in this dark and lonely hour.