His life had become rather monotonous. He wasn’t depressed per se, but he wasn’t on the top of the world to be sure. He ate and slept, walked along the quiet shores of the ocean and on some occasions wandered aimlessly through the free lands. Always he told himself it wasn’t in the hopes of seeing her again, but of course it was. That day still stood as a highlight of his life, a day where he felt he could be more, achieve more than this lackadaisical life he had been living. In all his wandering however he had yet to come across her again. Summer had begun warming the lands once again, new families dotted the landscapes with young pups just beginning the adventures of life, and perhaps it was seeing those little balls of fluff playing about in the sparse sea grasses that moved him from the land today.

A family was never something he had dreamt of having for himself, so he wasn’t entirely sure why it seemed to bother him so today, but with her face dancing in the back of his mind he found himself wandering from the shore and into the heart of Moladion. Long, lanky limbs carried him through the field where the sun glinted off the still waters of the lake. Aimlessly he wandered, stopping here and there to take in the world or just feel the sun warming his white-gray coat. It was while he was sitting atop one of the rocks that jutted from the sea of grasses, eyes closed and simply enjoying the warm day when he felt it. At first it was almost like a chill running down his spine, odd for how warm the day off but he attempted to shrug it off. Before long the feeling intensified and the slight chill turned into an odd tingling in the center of his chest.

Darkly navy blue eyes snapped open, the sun catching the striations of red within as he searched the landscape almost desperately. There was only one thing that would cause the feeling that now bloomed all-consuming in his chest and come hell or high water he would find her. Gracefully he leapt from his rock, walking in a circle around it until the feeling intensified, just as he was heading toward the forest that bled into Taviora to the north. Like a flash he was off, long limbs moving his athletic boy over the field with ease that was born to him. As he grew closer his brows furrowed, his general sense of her evolving so that he received more of a sense of her actual emotions. She was sad, he wasn’t sure about what exactly but the idea of her being unhappy made him push himself even harder.

Before long he was jogging through the trees, his mostly white form a stark contrast to the surrounding abundant greenery as his eyes cut through the forest. Finally, through the brush, he saw her and it literally took his breath away. For a moment he paused and simply stared at her, she looked exactly as she had before, her golden brown form seeming much more at home here amongst the woodland than he. Swallowing his heart, which had seemingly jumped into his throat, he walked forward slowly though every fiber of his being wanted to sprint to her side. “Reian,” he breathed her name with the ghost of a smile turning up the edges of his mouth as he stopped a few paces away from her. As much as he wanted to touch her, comfort her from whatever was troubling her, he wasn’t sure if she would appreciate it. “Are you okay?” he asked finally breaking the long, significant moment that seemed to linger between them. He wasn’t sure if she would want him to stick around, she might just be passing through, but he had to at least know that she was alright.