The Sunspire i can't get you out of the rain.

Summer eyed his alpha as she responded to his words. The frustration and displeasure was there in her tone and in her eyes and the sympathy it brought out in him only strengthened when she went on to discuss how strange it was for her to not have Ferdie around anymore. His suspicions of some sort of romance between the two also intensified, but truly it was neither here nor there at that point.

"Maybe we should be looking for the cougar instead," he said thoughtfully, not actually intending to do so out loud but it sort of happened anyway. "I haven't uncovered anything that suggests that it or any of its kind have been around lately, not since... you know." It wasn't of much help, he knew. But no news was good news. And yet, he couldn't help but want to do more. Protecting their borders was one thing, but it felt somehow wasted when there was consistently nothing there to protect against.