It was that awkward sensation of having to restart all over again. He held onto esperance that he made the right decision, though. The fella who accepted him hadn't seemed all that bad either. Reasonable at least. If things didn't work out for him here he was sure it would only take a civil conversation for him to disappear without hassle. Hopefully.

He groaned as he walked around. The snow wasn't fun to trudge through even for a man of his size. Not to mention there was snow falling down that piled itself on his back. God he couldn't wait for the warmer months to roll around. Things would heat up (both the wolves and the land) and he'd enjoy it with great pleasure. The spring was always a lively time, same with the summer. For now, he had to be faced with the cold.

Without a reason, he plopped down onto his rear in the cold snow. His brown eyes looked out into the trees that stood heavy with snow. He wondered how they all didn't just snap in half. It must have been some kind of miracle. Now he was forced to wonder if that's why he had stayed together all these years. By some crazy miracle. Granted he had been raised to handle pressure and assess situations well but that didn't mean he couldn't feel the pressure. He felt it now for example. Somewhere in his chest where a heart should be. Some days he was truly convinced there was nothing inside him but an endless pit. Yet even on those days he still rose and faced the world with a neutral mindset.

The silence and his thoughts had been trying to consume him whole. He should've have been happy when he heard someone call out but his brows furrowed. His brown eyes found some child bouncing through the snow towards him. She looked almost like that alpha male except she had gold eyes whereas he had blue.

He rose to his paws and shook off any of the piling snow. "Many thanks for your welcome." He smiled softly, his head lowered a bit. She couldn't be older than a year. "It's a true pleasure to meet you, Lucia. I'm Heigen but you can call me Gen." The large man's tail wagged, dropping off any snow that sat on it. "What're you doing out here in the cold, though?" Surely this Lucia kid hadn't come all the way through the heavy snow just to greet him. Unless she really was that friendly and outgoing. In which case he almost worried that the kid would be bothering him a lot. It wasn't that he didn't like children but he was more concerned about her possibly picking up on his bad traits or one of the parents thinking he was up to no good. He had just shown up too so in no way was he looking to already start trouble.