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Oh, what had happened to her? What fate had befallen her to have made her into the anguished creature she was before him? 

He saw the tears. Watched them fall. Recognized them as his on, yet one's he had never shed once in his life. Sharp glacial eyes narrowed, rapt with great understanding. He knew her pain. Against the pull he felt, he did not move to her. Just sat, watching calmly.

Let her take the time to process his sudden re-appearance. To wrestle with whether or not he was the same wolf she had met so long ago. Dark ears shifted back at the broken pieced whine she uttered for him. He replied with a slight lift of his chin and his characteristic, gravelly rumble.

A sound of reassurance. He stood, crooning low then. Padding forward with steps far too soft for his heavy paws.  

You are not alone anymore.