|In the [shadow] of a Mountain|

Calypso couldn’t breath. Her mate had come for her. She gave an excited yip and would press against him rolling her head in his pelt, drinking in his scent, the scent of the packlands, the sea.... “Oh my love, my sweet sweet love.” She would murr, her voice thick with emotion and her tail swaying a raven plume. “They are here..” She would smile and look behind her as her children would come running.



Caspian would come running and then would pause just short of his father looking much like a mirror image of him save for his blue eyes, the color of the sea. He blinked them and would tilt his head twitching his nose. “Daddy?” He would say as if he couldn’t believe his father was actually there, his small tail began to wag.

Calypso would smile lovingly at Jack as he bowed to play with their children. They had missed him so much...and he had missed out on much as well. Time lost never regained but such was life. He was here and they remembered him well and they would build upon that. It wasn't as if they had been abandoned, he had whisked them away to safety. Calypso knew nothing of Liar's pups...or lack there of save one...nor the one being stolen.

She would laugh lightly at her mate and let her dark tail sway back and forth gently. "I am so glad to see you my love." she would say. "We missed you so much." With a deep sigh and a look of longing with eyes more blue than the sea.

"Help you?" she would say to her little daughter and would grin and then move closer and began tickling Atla herself with a paw. "Like this?" she would giggle.


Caspian would yip and bounce then when his father confirmed. Yes it was him. He would not hesitate when his father play bowed at him and would come running hard to pounce him and bite and nip and roll against his fur. As he was swatted at and rolled, he laughed and regained his gaingly puppy paws and would launch himself again at Jack.

Calypso would smile at her mate lovingly. "Home..'She would murr the word like honey off her tongue. She missed the cool salt air the shadowy forest the sand.. the pack...and Jack. She would wag her tail excitedly and would smile. Her eyes shining like the ocean on a clear blue day.

Caspian would flick his ears forward and blink. "Home?" he would tilt his head and then would bounce. "Yes...home!! Lets go now!!" He would say and then turn his big puppy paws to stride off into the unknown...fearlessly. "Caspian." Calypso would call and he would stop and look at his mother. 'Wait for us." she would smile and tickle her daughter once more.

Family...once again...at last.

OOC: oou i should skirt Chimera through here after the pearl!!

They had heard her complaints but they were shrewdly dismissed, when they finally got close enough to the den site Curse put Navi down. He had been carrying her for the last stretch. Making an exaggerated spitting noise he looked at her with a comical look of disgust on his face. "UGH, whadya roll around in sand before this?!" Sorrow swatted at him which he nimbly avoided. He shot a smug smile her way before bowing low before Navi. "Behold my lady, our fair kingdom of wind and sand! I hope you like eating everything with a bit of crunch!" Despair stepped up then and shot him a look which while Curse had the courtesy to look sheepish his smile still remained. "Navi, you will stay here for now. I can not be with you all the time but there are many in my clan." He bent real low and looked her in the eye. " I need you to listen to me well. Do not, do NOT wander off by yourself? Do you understand? We can not protect you if you wander away. You need to understand that this is no game. That brute would have killed you back there if he could have. You wander off, we're not looking for you. But I'll surely tell your parents where they can find your bones. Get it? Good." He stood then looking at Sorrow. "Get her some water and some company. I'm sure Spite will talk her poor ear off. I need to find my sons." With that he strode off shaking off his coat.

Sorrow looked down at Navi and sighed. "Come on kid, time to meet the locals." With that she too strode forward albeit a little slower. First stop was some water, so without further delay she found a small dip in the ground that was a relatively narrow hole and slide inside knowing the pup would follow. Here a cool cavern lent its wonders to the harsh desert, water rippling the light across the top. Sorrow went to the edge of the pool and it was not shallow enough for a full grown wolf to bath in, it was enough for a pup like Navi. She took a long drink and waited for her to come forward.

Navi didn't wait for any more prompting from Sorrow. Sliding herself into the cool pool she could have melted in it's wet blessing. She ducked and lapped at the water some more while pondering Sorrow's questions. 

Glad to hear they didn't care what she did around here and Sorrow's reassurance that Despair was a good wolf if not gruff. She looked down at her rippled reflection. "Because of Damean...because of my parents...." She said softly. "Damean forgot me...my parents forgot me too...they weren't happy with just me and Damean...they had to bring HER too. Damean liked her better..." She gave a soft sigh and clentched her teeth tightly. "So I decided that I would go and learn how to be a tough wolf...strong...tough...and show them that I was not going to be forgotten." Her voice went to a soft whisper.

 She didn't understand why she was even telling Sorrow this...why confide it in the she wolf with the green eyes. Clearing her throat she shook water from her ears. "Anyway...I thought if anyone could teach me it would be Despair. He said he would help me once...I remember..." She added with a firm resolution.

Another reason was that she felt no one liked her there. Her mood swung wildly from time to time and she didn't know where she got that from. Her mother, Cinder, and her father, Link, were steadfast and reliable....wonderful wolves. She felt like she was a dissapointment on top of everything.

Sorrow's lids were half closed but she was watching Navi intently her ears cupped casually forward to catch her soft lyrics. She read the lines of rejection and hurt in the youths body, the forlorn look that should never be a pups face. So she had felt forgotten, unfavored by her very parents and she cast out to become stronger. Sorrow felt a smile at the corner of her mouth, my she could think of a few wolves who exhibited these same traits. She wondered who the She was that the young fae was referencing but she was willing to bet she knew who the Damean was. She let the words hang in the air not commenting. When the silence stretched long enough she cleared her throat and rose to her feet. "Come topside again and get dry in the sun, I'm sure there be something more interesting watch too. Then again, it might just be a bunch of sand" She winked at Navi and exited the den her face tilted to the sun. The season was becoming milder but there was no extreme change out here in the lone lands...just less hot.