His audettes perked up and one flickered a bit as the call rang through the terra, echoing off of the timber trunks of the dense forest. The soprano vocals reverberated in his mind, bringing back ancient memories, days in a dark den protecting his pups. Terror as one by one they began to die or leave him - Sin chose Adara, seeing her as a better parental figure than Aindreas himself, until Sin had left with Aindreas' father - apparently everyone was preferable as a mentor than Aindreas. And Pandora - or Disaster, as her mother has named her - had disappeared. While they were still living in Moondown Shadows, he had awoken one morning to find her gone. It was not overly surprising - pups would be pups and all too often wandered off to explore or play, but she had not come to the pack meeting. Days after days had gone on without her returning to the den... and eventually the day had come where Aindreas had to leave - he had only been stationed in Moondown Shadows by Kalgalath's decree, and the new demand was that he move instead to Spring Grounds. Of course it had helped that Stormy was there - that he wanted to protect her. He had been loath to leave Moondown Shadows in case Pandora returned... or in case Drizzt left his mother in Malignant Felicity and returned to Moondown, but he had had to leave. It was what was commanded of him.

Since then he had heard neither hide nor hair from Pandora, and since he had abandoned Drizzt in order to take over Aurora Borealis he had not heard from his son either. He had meant to reconnect with his son - but when he had heard of Pierce's abdication of the throne and gone to Spring Grounds, Drizzt was gone too. He was a childless father, a failure as a parent. After all of his years in solitude resenting his own parents, all the hessian had ever wanted was a family of his own. He had sworn always to be a good father in comparison to his own... yet that had failed.

But these vocals...

"...Pandora?..." Aindreas leapt to his feet and bounded through the trees, his heart racing. He was still not used to his vision - the glowing spheres that guided him with exquisite accuracy, but he used it to his advantage now, to swerve around trees and bushes and avoid the auras of living things in his path, both so that he would not potentially trip over them but also so that he would not have to interact with any of his pack members. "Pandora!" He screamed through the air as he ran, hoping that she was real and not a figment of his imagination. His large paws pounded upon the ground in thunderous strides as he neared the boundary and then his claws dug deep trenches in the earth as he skidded to a stop in front of a wolfess - fully grown and not at all the pup he remembered. But her coloring and her scars were the same, only now her orbs matched his own. Aindreas shook his head, unbelieving what he saw. "What... How?..." Without hesitating, he rushed forward and pulled her into an embrace if she would allow it.

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