There's not quite enough room there for Stone to just land as he is, so he dives, shifts halfway down, grabs a tree branch to slow his fall the rest of the way, and drops to the grass. "Gale, you idiot, where have you been all this time!"

He's not smiling-- he looks like he might growl some more, in fact-- but he does all but pounce Gale with a hug once he's on the ground and close enough. How dare you make him think he wasn't ever going to see you again, Gale. How dare.