Sleepy Fox Hollow all i can do when the plans break down is stay on my feet

Kallik had come to Paleo, returned from wherever he had gone, to put @Siku through a wringer of emotions he neither asked for nor was equipped to handle. Mahler had informed Wylla of this, so she had given the boy space in the aftermath, but now she cantered over the deep snow of the vale under a glaring sky full of flurries in search of him.

There was an ember of anger banked down behind her breast, but it was not for Siku that it burned. The boy had done nothing wrong by seeking shelter with wolves whose lifestyle, while hard in its own way, was nothing like that of a soldier. The same soldiers who broke apart his family, no less. No. She was angry at the circumstances that had turned life to misery for that young man.

Wylla wanted him to know he would never be forced back there if that was not what he wished.