Neverwinter Forest Between the sky and the sea / Blue as can be

Unsurprisingly, Mal was still in a bit of a funk. "Bit." You know, relative term. He wanted Caerus to be happy somehow. That was the main thing weighing him down now -- he felt he somehow let his son down even though he knew that there wasn't anything that could be done. Time. 

But maybe a tiny bit of good news appearing out of it all? The howl  he heard was certainly familiar. He hadn't known when Haoniyao had run disappeared -- maybe while Mal was off on his adventure. So. Tiny bit of good news? Maybe? By now his leg was basically healed, but he still moved unevenly when he was feeling guilty about the world -- psychological. And so, distracted, it lessened as he came upon the scene. The sisters had beaten him there.

His grin might not have been as wide as it otherwise would have been, Hey, you get a little lost or something?