I dream of Polar night

Charon gasped when Osprey said that the bear magic made Drake have hair. Those darned bears! Well, they didn't do it on purpose, but looking fuzzy must be really hard for a bear. The only plus side seemed to be the real beating heart, because, from what Charon had deducted from other stories, real hearts were always better than stone hearts, because it was much easier to love with them (though Charon did not know or understand why, exactly, this was so; it just was).

Poor Drake was even poorer now that he was attached together again, but by bear magic, making him all hairy! Charon wondered how his family would respond when he would return. Did he look like a bear, or was his rocky self just replaced by a furrier version of the same Lauren? Charon didn't know for sure.

"Hmmmm," mused Charon when Osprey asked him for the reaction of Drake's parents. "When they saw him from far they thought he was a bear! When he got close his brother tackled him 'cause he was a bear! But then 'cause he was close he saw that it was just Drake with hair. And and and uhm, his fam'ly loved him 'cause he was still Drake." Charon nodded in conclusion, because he knew that was what his family would do if he would have bear-fur instead of Charon-fur (though he wasn't entirely sure what the difference was). That's what family did: accept and love you unconditionally... Right?