Dated 10/7 - Cloud cover intensifying, after dusk.
This whole adventure has officially been dubbed with this themesong.
Hopefully this backdating doesn't bug up anything Skoll has going. If there's a conflict, just let me know and I'm sure we can work it out. Sven is pretty malleable right now. c:
His breath was ragged as his paws beat upon the ground, long-legged strides eating up the ground beneath him ravenously. He had done it, after all of this time spent sitting and waiting, after all the miles he had covered this past week, he had finally found his mother. This was what he should have done sooner, he chided himself, but the thought was rapidly buried under the pureness of his excitement. She was so close, he now knew, having picked up her scent within the fringe of the Cedarwood Forest. They could have her home before the night's end, they could be a whole family once again before the morning's light. All he needed was his father to come with him, to help him fetch her. After all, there had to be something lurking within that forest, holding her captive. She couldn't have been so close to them and not come home. She wouldn't have chosen that.
At last, he crossed back into the Archer domain, but his speed did not relent. The trail of his father was easily picked up, the man most likely patrolling the borders or searching for a nightly snack. A sharp bark snapped through the air as Sven breathlessly beckoned the elder Archer to him.
"Father! he called out, pale tongue lolling from betwixt his jaws. "Father I found her! I found mother!"