...I don't know the name for it. I'm south of [says the name of the town his father lives in, without clarifying, like it's the only place with that name ever.]
—now, which— oh, the one near [ COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACE NAME. namely the town that Chris had been visiting, but Kieran wouldn't know that even if he did recognize the name ]?
[Kieran gives himself half an hour to CALM DOWN after that bucketload of... whatever it was. Then he painstakingly rewraps the phone, and makes his way back to the cave.]
[ so it turns out "I'll try to clean up a bit" meant "I'll shift wolf and try to dig up half the cave to make sure all the rotting things get washed out properly." raising his head from his latest hole and wagging with a half-bark ]
[ gives him a BIG DOGGY GRIN, tongue out and teeth concealed. padding carefully over (digging up half the cave with a hole still in his chest was not actually a good idea) to touch noses ]
[ SUCCESS ALL AROUND. it takes him a little longer—wolf isn't a shape he often sleeps in—but he's worn out enough from the shifts and the digging that it isn't overly long before he falls asleep, too. ]
[True to his word, Kieran sleeps until the next evening, utterly worn out from days of stress. but he does eventually wake, realize he's still wearing his pelt, and sleepily shed it.]
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[ mutters the name to himself a few times ]
—now, which— oh, the one near [ COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACE NAME. namely the town that Chris had been visiting, but Kieran wouldn't know that even if he did recognize the name ]?
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...I don't know. I'm sorry.
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...oh, but I'm sorry, I haven't even said so much as "thank you"— I've been so worried—
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It's fine.
He's- healing well, so he'll be back to you soon. The energy is running out. I have to go.
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[ sad seal eyes, meet audible sad puppy eyes. ]
Might I get your name before you go...?
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Kieran.
[click.]
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well, at least he kept him on long enough to get some usable information, if not to start a trace...
and his son most likely is alive. that's the most important thing of all. ]
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drops the phone and half-barks back.]
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snuffling his face all over, wagging furiously ]
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crouching down into a playbow to make face snuffling easier and then just sort of. falls over. look at this majestic flopsprawl. ]
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scoots up to press against his side.]
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also he is losing his willsave. whining and licking Kieran's face ]
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