Neverwinter Forest glitter

When she nosed his cheek, he turned slightly towards her to lick the side of her muzzle in return before laying down next to her. He was glad things had gone back to being normal between again -- when Yuelong was here it was weird, but there were enough other abnormal things going on that the whole thing was a mess. That had been peak mess and there were a lot of things that Mal wished had happened differently. Being able to be close to her made things feel a little less like the world was entirely on his shoulders -- even if it still was, but he was pretty affection-starved trying to give what felt like half the pack space when that wasn't how he operated. 

Still, that was then and elsewhere, this was now. And stuff was better-ish. So, with a light smile, Same as it has been. For the good and bad that was. Many wolves had been in a pretty negative mood with how everything had happened, but when Mal himself shared the mood, how was he supposed to fix it? About all he could think to do was to just keep trudging on. But maybe that was the wrong thing. Are they all behaving themselves this time? As opposed to whatever chaos lead to Nuala being able to slip away the other day. But it would be a good enough lead in to asking her thought on what to suggest next to Caerus if there was no news to talk about.