Temo looked over his son and daughter and it felt like years since he had seen Honrin and Pandora last. They seem to look like they had been doing ok over the past month. It saddened him when he remembered that they had not visited him. He wondered where he had gone wrong in their upbringing that made then not check on their own father, especially at a time that he needed them. His thoughts expanded to include the pack as he realized that out of the whole pack, Dalgina was the only one that had come looking for him. So unimportant that it would not occur to anyone to check up on him during a lengthy and unannounced absence.
His thoughts were interrupted when Pandora threw herself at him and hung onto him. For a moment he went back in time to when things were happier and he saw his baby girl, Hi Pandora, how is my little girl?, he spoke quietly as he placed his hand on her shoulder. But it only lasted a moment before the oppression of reality bore back down upon him. It was now that he noticed another that had joined them. A face that he had not seen for a long time. Ookami? he whispered but was cut short by the emergence of Jace from the house.
He did not know who had come from the house. Whomever it was, it was not the vibrant, young and full of life female that he had been a mate to. Several tears seeped from his eyes and soaked into his fur at the emaciated state that she was in. Because of Jace's thinness and loss of hair holding his attention, he had not noticed the pups until they were milling about his feet. Puzzled, he looked down and it was a few heartbeats before he realized that they were Jace's newest litter of puppies. And his.
He knelt down which was difficult for him in his weakened state and having to brace himself on Pandora so as not to over balance and fall. why hello there, he said to them as he petted them and picked them up one at a time meeting his newest batch of children for the first time. As the rest of the world was forgotten for a moment, he felt a spark of happiness. What are their names? he asked Jace.
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