"Mamamaama...." Zander nuzzled Iris’s neck happily, but Iris felt her blood drained from her face when she heard what happened with her other baby. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
"What do you mean they went missing?!" Iris screeched, she scared Zander, as the baby stopped his rambling.
Cane immediately told her about what happened based on what Grilla and Joel told them. Currently, Finn was tracking down their baby and Lil Thing.
Before this, Lil Thing had never wandered around and if someone told Iris her one of the babies would go missing one day, her mind would think the baby must Zander, since Zenith was too passive to roam around on his own.
"I will go with the other warriors," Cane said. "I will find our baby, just go back with Zander."
Their only comfort was Lil Thing went with Zenith, but then how could that bear exert an effort to take their baby away when both of them were pretty similar on taking seriously on their napping time?
"No." Iris grabbed Cane’s hand, her expression looked very serious, which made Cane didn’t argue with her. "I will find him."
Cane furrowed his brows when he heard that. He was about to persuade her to go back when he remembered one thing. This was very important thing.
If there was someone, who could find their baby right away, it must be Iris.
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Lil Thing nudged the baby to get on its back again, but the baby kept crawling on the velvety grass. Its body was covered with mud, as he stood up and started walking, but after a few steps he would continue crawling.
Zenith repeated the same process until he arrived at the forest.
"No. No. No..." Zenith said clearly, as he pushed Lil Thing’s muzzle away, because the bear blocked his way, but this time Lil Thing didn’t budge. They were so far from the pack house already and the bear needed to get this little one back to his crib.
Lil Thing let out frustrated growl, but it didn’t bother Zenith, the little boy pursed his lips.
"Baad, baad Ihl ..." Zenith was not scared at all. "Move... go..."
Lil Thing circled him, it didn’t mean to bring the baby too far, but he told it to keep going, thus it followed the order.
However, it would get scolded if it didn’t bring him back.
Zenith saw something that piqued his interest, this thing had woken him up from his sleep and kept telling him to come.
"Move! Move! Ihl bad!" Zenith tried to push Lil Thing. The baby became frustrated when the bear didn’t budge, it blocked his way from the subject that interested him and kept nudging him toward the opposite direction. "Move, pweese... move pweesee... Ihl goohd." Zenith tried different approach, but it didn’t work.
He was about to cry when he saw something else, something more interesting. These new subjects piqued his interest more and he stopped to push Lil Thing away.
In the end, Zenith sat there, rambling incoherently and laughed, as if someone played with him, while Lil Thing curled next to him.
This was the forest in Goffa mountain, Lil Thing was familiar with this area.
"Ishh... Ish..." Zenith babbled. "Ohaa... Taa, Ta..."
Lil Thing couldn’t bring him back, but at the very least, the baby didn’t walk further to the mountain and after half an hour, Zenith started to get tired, he yawned and curled himself next to Lil Thing.
The bear let the baby laid down on its stomach, whimpered because it didn’t know what to do now.
Thankfully, soon after, Lil Thing’s ear perked up. It smelled familiar scent and a second later the forest was surrounded by shifters. The king’s black beast was the first one that reached them, the queen was sitting on its back.
The sight reminded Lil Thing of how the queen used to sit on its back too.
If there was someone, who could tell the other person’s exact location within a few second, it must be Iris. She uncovered her new ability during the war.
"Zenith! Lil Thing!" Iris immediately got down from the beast’s back and scooped her baby. The king shifted back into his human form as well and followed his mate. He didn’t smell blood, which was a good sign.
Iris was freaking out when she saw her little one was covered in mud.
Relief only came to her when she checked on him and didn’t find anything that she needed to be worried about. Aside from being very dirty and got a few scratches on his knees, since he was too little and his healing ability had not yet developed really well, Zenith was perfectly fine.
Iris cried so hard when she got her baby back, while Cane hugged her from behind. On the other hand, Lil Thing pretended that it was dead. It didn’t move, closed its eyes.
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