He’d had plans he was excited about and then the new Arrha failed to step forward at a reasonable time and now they won’t work so he has to go and find them. Because politics are stupid and travelling to another kingdom as a shifter would already be a delicate issue (he’s not going to start a war! He’s not an idiot!) and way too few people are interested in combining the different types of magic to start with but now people are on edge. And everyone thinks that shifters are hiding the Arrha on purpose (it is a role that rotates, the last one was a mage and the one before an angel, so now it should be one of them, it’s not a thing that malfunctions) and the situation is so! annoying!
But he’s going to figure it out. He just has to find the Arrha and then everything can go back into place.
So now he’s trotting through the forest in wolf form (even if he’s not in a great mood, the wind on his fur and the moss under his paws feel just as nice as always), on his way to yet another absurdly remote village. Maybe this one will be living sufficiently under a rock that the Arrah is there and they just didn’t realise what it meant.