"I am so happy to see you!" I grinned up at him. "How have you been?"
He ran a hand through his unkempt hair and smiled back down at me. "I have been okay. Getting a bit fed up with searching for my mate if I am honest. It has been a while since I last saw you."
"I did not realise you were still looking," I said. "I thought you were focused on training."
He shrugged. "I trained for a full year and got my Gamma status at Harvest Moon pack last month. Then the urge just hit me and I thought I would join the travelling group. You know how it is, a wolf sense that you cannot really argue with. I never expected to find you here though. Mum and Dad told me you had left but they did not say much more than that."
"I am so proud of you," I laughed and pulled him in for another hug, genuinely meaning it. "I am so glad you are here."
"Me too," he said warmly. "But why are you here? Nobody really explained. And how long have you been here?"
