Neverwinter Forest Checked into a new place

Set for the 26! I don't feel like tagging the entire dang pack, but hi, Mal is home. Tagged Cupid since Mal is heading towards his den first but anyone can actually intercept.

Just because he'd kept moving it didn't mean he'd moved fast. But he needed to get home -- to find out if Cupid was there, for his own safety even. But it had taken longer than he'd wanted to finally see home ahead again. He hadn't slept the first night, and the night after was only for a couple hours when he'd finally crumpled into a pile somewhere that seemed relatively safe. But it wasn't like his progress the other direction.

By the time the forest was in front of him, Mal was a bit of a mess -- soaked, muddied, all of that. He hadn't taken too much care since passing through the mountains the second time, but the ongoing rain had done a pretty good job at washing off some of the signs of what happened days prior -- or maybe it just soaked it deeper into his fur. The closer he got, the more he pushed on, even if maybe it wasn't the best of ideas he'd ever had -- but hey, he wasn't bleeding everywhere so that meant he could probably keep going.

For now he was just glad to be home. He howled briefly to let them all know he was back and kept going across the border, starting to look for a sign of Cupid. He had things to say to everyone. He didn't care who he ran into, but he did want to know what he'd missed, he wanted them to let them know what he'd heard as well. But he was heading towards @Cupid's den first, if only to see if he'd been there, unevenly pushing his way through the brush rather than taking a path -- shortest line to his destination. He'd check, and if Cupid wasn't there maybe he'd just get cleaned up and go back out. Okay, that was unreasonable. Probably. But he had to do something if Cupid was still gone and now there were names and news -- just too many things, a new spike of adrenaline to push on forward, scared of what he might not find.