Broken Antler Fen Pretty Thoughts

Referencing this, let me know if it's not okay!

The mountain range had proven impassable, so Coriander doubled back with every intention of going around them. He would have continued his path, if not for the disruption that found him — a disruption in the form of something so familiar, he thought he was imagining it at first. He was surely too far from home for any piece of it to have found him... but at the same time, wasn't it possible? More than possible. His siblings had gone to forge their own paths, and with this knowledge, it shouldn't have seemed so outlandish to him that he would cross one such path. But it did, perhaps because he wanted it so badly. Coriander wasn't used to getting things he wanted.
In the end, what made it believable was that it wasn't quite all that he'd hoped for. If the universe truly were to grace him with a gift too good to be true, it would be Sarah's scent lingering faintly among the mountains and trailing down to the wooded wetland below. But it wasn't, and that was how he knew it must be the truth, rather than some cruel trick of a lonely mind. Still, Cori was overjoyed at the prospect of seeing one of his sisters, and it showed. His excitement bled into the call he sent up for @Maia, hanging back a respectful distance from the border of a pack that smelled ever-so-faintly of his littermate. That faint scent was enough to give him hope, a fragile fluttering thing beating softly against his ribcage and growing stronger with each passing moment.