Ankyra Sound Mystification

panacea had led a very strange life.
in his earliest months, he'd been lost, parted from everyone he knew save his brother. they'd found their way to blackwater somehow.
seclusion reigned in those months, silence in their worlds while a pack thrived around them. they'd never met anyone except their savior, cerulean, and the leader herself. the listener. panacea had been afraid of her then. he still was.
but then she had disappeared. all of blackwater had, and the boys had emerged from their isolation to find a ghost town. they'd survived on their own for a time.
then elias disappeared, too.
at nine months old, panacea was self-sufficient; he'd picked up the basics of the world in his own disjointed way, and maybe he could have gone on like that forever, if not for one thing. he was lonely. he'd always had elias, but now he had no one.
he was picking his way along the beach when he saw the girl. her fur was misty grey, but her face was stained with red. he stopped, struck dumb by the sight of someone close to his age for a second, then barked out an amiable greeting. he set off to close the distance with tail swaying happily. finally!