The Sunspire Walk Among the Shadows

Ok, so he says he doesn't have any news, then follows up with that. To Vienna, for him to stop searching for Ferdie was rather large news. She had slowed down in her search, true, but she had hardly known the previous Alpha. She liked him well enough, but it had seemed that he and her brother had been close despite some of their differences.

"And are you... okay with that?" she asked somewhat hesitantly, looking at him a little more closely now. She knew he loved her and wanted to protect her, but she wanted to be there for him too. Wanted him to know that he could share his troubles. Despite her somewhat naive optimism, she could take it.