Qeya River Await the love that I call trouble

Surya still was absent. 
his scent long since faded from the pack. 
With a shattered heart she dragged herself onward, grieving, not even a body to bury. She wondered...had his last thoughts been of her? Had he pictured the children they wanted to have? Had he imagined her, singing to him, telling her childhood stories? 
She hadn't eaten in days, nor bathed. But an instinct tugged at her. She had loved and lost before. She would love again. She would not go the way of Minnow, not yet. Nomatter how much the seeds of grief and sorrow in her mind demand she do so. She pulled herself to her paws, making her way to the river. The water was fast moving and dangerous...one slip on the icy bank and she was as good as dead. She found an Eddie tucked behind a large boulder and slipped into it, relishing the cool water on her skin. After a moment she rose again, a figure moving towards her. 
Her whole back end squirmed with excitement as she realized it was the male she had met in the swamp- a welcome relief. 
She called out to him joyously, rushing into him and nearly knocking him over as she wrapped him in a hug. "I didn't expect to see you again!" She grinned. "Did you change your mind about Whitebark?"