Skoll had done little thinking about soft things these days; the beast growing within him would not permit it. And that was what he was slowly becoming, no more than an animal in the body of a werewolf, prowling through the territory and living as solitary a life as it could. He’d tried to make amends with himself in some ways, such as fetching food for the injured Takekuro man and saving his son (or so he’d thought at the time), but he hadn’t bothered to get at the root of the problem—and so it grew, a thorn in his paw, constantly throbbing and keeping him in the worst of moods.
A doggish howl brought his head up suddenly, and he stood from the log he’d been sitting on. For a second, he was himself—brushing his unruly hair out of his face, green eyes round with curiosity—and then he loped nervously in the direction of the summons. Adelle, Adelle, he hadn’t thought much of her since everything else started to occupy his life, but he found himself missing her—because, whatever else she could have been to him, she was a friend, and he needed a friend of his own age right now.
His optime form had traded its princely strut in for a wolfy gait, and so he made quick time to the borders, where he stopped and sniffed. There she was, even more grown-up than he remembered, beginning to lose the last traces of childishness in her toned body. He didn’t know what he thought about that, or even what he looked like: a young man instead of an awkward boy, turned more feral from anger.
At last, Skoll smiled boyishly. “Good to see you again.”
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