Ouroboros Spine put on your coat and your hat

Just a departure thread! Single replies only, please!

As much as he wanted to go, Valiant... didn't want to go. He promised @Vairë he'd be a few days at most, and then he lingered over his daughters as if someone had glued his paws to the ground. He gave them all one last kiss. Then another. Then he promised them again it would just be a few days.

There was another round of kisses.

This went on for just a little while longer.

Eventually, later in the morning than he'd hoped, Valiant gathered with @Kyrell and @Ciri at the village center. He sought a blessing from @Kukutux, just as he had sought blessings from Easy each time he'd departed from White Spine. Those blessings had always brought him home to her, in the past.

And, finally, they set off for Morningsong.