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Things were not going well in Finna's world. Her days lately were about as gray as the sky that hung over her head. The low rumble of thunder had been echoing through the lands for hours already. There was only one place she could go after that conversation with Erykk.. He hadn't been wrong though.. She had demanded something of him, and she had brought it upon herself. She couldn't even be mad at him. But her heart was broken, and she had no idea what to do to fix it. Even her conversation with Canicah had been less than what she'd been hoping for.

So her paws carried her to familiar grounds. She hardly realized she had walked the full distance until she looked up. Her ice blue eyes looking over her family's den. She had lots of good memories of this den, growing up and enjoying life. She had been booted from it when they were exiled, forever losing what she considered her safe place. Or so she assumed. Once her family was allowed to return, everything had just sort of fallen back into place.

"Momma?" She called hesitantly. She didn't want to surprise anyone, least of all her sweet mother.

"Please be home, please be home.." She whispered, her heart in her chest. If she didn't have her mother right now, she was sure she was just going to curl up and die.

Pur had been trying to pick up the pieces of what her life once was in her former den. After being exiled it had been one trying moment after another and somewhere in between she had found herself hopeless and closed off to the world in her mourning. It took her some time to pull herself out of it, but she managed to. The children that had been left with her she looked after, and the grandchildren that came during that time she made sure were well cared for, but she still ached.

After the exile was over she scoured the forest and the edges of the pride lands to make sure everyone was accounted for in one way or another. Not everyone was accounted for. Ombra was missing. She searched and searched with what limited time she had between helping Klona with the grandkids and finding a way to pull her newly found sister and niece out of Thralldom in the inner pride. There was no luck in her endeavour. Ombra was gone and no one knew where. She only prayed that wherever she had been chased off to she was safe, because she knew if she had been chased off from the area she was not safe in the first place.

Pur's ears flicked forward when she heard a familiar voice. Sweet and sad sounding, calling out for her. It was Finna and something sounded like it was burdening her. If her dream was true, something was making her upset and she would make it better. Leaving the rest of the work in the den to the side, Pur poked her head out and looked around before she saw her blue eyed daughter.

"Finna!" She beamed, hurriedly rushing out of the shambled old den to greet her child properly with as much motherly love as a child could handle. "Are you ok? I had a dream and you were so sad. Why is my Finna so sad?"