Wheeling Gull Isle flapkrasha

same!

Her tears shed, but she did not shy away. She embraced them. Held strength despite them...or maybe because of them. 

Malakai could see from the corner of his gaze, his siblings looking to their mother but Kai did not look away from her either. 

Gone. It was confirmed. He went where God lead him to go. A missionary, as one day perhaps Malakai might become. Right now, they were a flock and made a place for God's people. Maybe one day, this wolf would return to them and Kai could meet him and hear his tales and learn his ways. 

Then, after a sharp nod, he is off after his mother, leaving the past where it was, down in that dark, damp hole.