It would be good, to have Sera home again. Raisa didn't think Andrei was still lurking (perhaps the misunderstanding with Koku hurt his feelings more than he let on), but maybe one day all three of them would be together again. Even if their parentage had always been a bit... unconventional, Raisa shared a special connection with the two siblings who'd gone through the same things she had, who might understand the way she felt. Cirilla and Benkei, they just couldn't, Raisa thought. How could they? Just like she couldn't imagine how it felt to be separated, told to keep a monumental secret, they couldn't understand what watching everyone die or abandon her had done to their Sovereign.

But Serafina was home now, she was staying, and Raisa grinned wide from ear to ear even as her littermate dulled under her own anxieties.

"You'll always have a home at my side, Sera."

Not that coming and going for long periods of time with no warning would be well received, but Raisa didn't see fit to punish her sister for adventuring and seeing all the sights young wolves like them should've been enjoying, especially after the travesties that were their short lifetime.