Overture Downs New Seasons

Hope you don’t mind a third to the party? :D

Everett was gone. Ophelia and Tybault too. And for the first time in his life, Evander was truly alone.

He could have stopped Everett from taking off. Even now, he could go and find his brother again. Instead he lingered here in the opposite direction from where Everett had gone. Why? Surely love should have driven him towards the sea — and yet, for once, it seemed the most loving thing to do was to let him go.

Evander wandered without much aim, watching the local wildlife, and the locals themselves. This was still a foreign place, after all, and he was aware of the great chasm that still separated him from the rest of wolfkind.

So when he saw the two women, he neither his nor concealed himself from them. He simply slowed his pace and kept a watchful eye on the exchange that transpired. Were they sisters? A pack? Friends given to helping one another out, even in trying times like these? Or maybe they had brokered a business deal, a trade — and he couldn’t help but smile at that thought.

Couldn’t have been a very big deal, if the object of pay looked nothing much more than a water rat.