Whitebark Stream We remembered you, and were waiting.

We're well, just trying to get settled in. It was easier said than done. This was not how things were supposed to go. He hadn't anticipated that they would be faced with such uncertainty while Grezig was pregnant. But he had learned well over the last year that things rarely went according to plan, especially for him. 

How are you? he asked. It was an automatic response. Everything had felt like an automatic response lately, like he was completely numb to the world and was just acting how he knew he should. It was all kind of exhausting really, but he had no other choice but to push on through each day.