Tesseract,
If I had not gone alone, my Potentate, your pack would have been without their leader. Better I be trapped alone than to leave your pack without the sensible Head of State, right?
Please, do not risk yourself, Tess. You arriving here would not make it any easier for me to swim across with you again, if I could even help you survive the hypothermia and pneumonia thereafter. I am not your Riopat, not even remotely, and I cannot imagine what it would do to me to be the reason you endangered or lost yourself.
I have food, I have herbs, I have water. I will wait, I will stay warm in my den, I will stay safe on the high ground in the pines of the heights nearest to Diveen. I have and will continue to take care of myself.
Promise you will howl to me. I will visit these shores every evening simply for a glimpse of you from afar, but I will miss the sound of your voice. Tell me of your days, of what we might do when the way is open for us again.
I wish we could have spoken as I had intended, I had so much to say…
I must bid you goodnight, my alpha. I will need to sleep well in order to build my stores before the animals all go to ground or leave the island entirely. I will wait for you to call on me tomorrow.
Health and Affection,