8: Missing

Startled by the sudden and hurried slamming of his office door, Alpha Adan looks up from his paperwork. Waylen is breathing heavily, pacing about.

"Are you going to tell me what the problem is?" Alpha Adan asks when Waylen doesn't say anything for a few minutes.

The young man ignores him and continues to pace. The alpha goes back to his work when it's evident the young man isn't ready to speak yet.

"How can you remain so calm?" comes Waylen's voice.

"Pardon me?" The older man looks up from the paperwork a second time.

"You heard me. I ran in here distraught but you're sitting there like...