He sat by a camp fire, the sounds of the others surrounding him, and yet leaving him untouched. Across the fire slept his son, his Myrddin. How were the others? Did they fare well in New Dawn? He was glad his mother would be able to spend time with them. He stretched out by the fire. It wasn't quite cold, but the fire gave off more warmth than the empty space by his side. Sure, she had come back, but she had been so cold towards him, so cold towards their son, toward the pack she had once sworn to protect. He had fallen in love with a stranger, he mused. He hadn't known her at all.
He could hear the booming laughter of his big brother across the camp, and a smile drifted across his lips, then faded like the sun had behind the trees hours ago. His gaze was drawn again to the fire, his fingers plucking at the denim encasing his legs absently. He had begun wearing the jeans when they, as a pack, had been working on the caravan. He closed his eyes as the memory of her laugh, her blue eyes, on the first day they'd worked on the caravan came to him. How she had hit her slender fingers with the hammer and he had taken them up and kissed them. How they had exchanged flirty glances every chance they'd gotten. He had been certain it was love.
Perhaps it had been. But she seemed, in her way, to be fickle as fate. He had sworn not to repeat his parent's mistakes, and she had gone ahead and left. His gaze drifted to his sleeping son, then drifted away again. He sighed softly, plucking at his jeans again.
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