Boartusk Heights Golden Light Shining From Above [m]

That Amber didn't take offense to his tone was a welcome relief. He'd spent so much time over the past few months keeping quiet because he wasn't sure how to say what he wanted. It was validating to speak and be understood - maybe he would have the confidence, next time, to seek out a packmate when he felt lonely. Maybe he'd seek out Amber.

"I'll stay," he told her, though truthfully, he considered it a question to be had closer to the time, and only once he was sure of the pregnancy. It might have been callous, but Amber meant little to him on her own. He would raise a family with her, if that was in the cards, and perhaps then love would blossom between them - but for the moment, she was little more than a friendly stranger. He'd gladly see her again, but unless she would give him a family, leaving Silvertip for her seemed like a bad idea. Even as he promised to stay with her, he began composing a speech to try and win her toward Silvertip instead.

Day followed her gaze in the direction she'd indicated, ears flickering as he stared into the distance. Little of the landscape was discernable to his weathered eyes, but that should be a problem, so long as her directions were true.

Remembering what he'd come up here to do in the first place, he glanced in the other direction and saw the distinct shape of an antler glittering up at him from below. There it was.

"I'm going to have to go soon," he said reluctantly, though he snuggled closer to her all the same. "My alpha sent me to speak to someone from the fen, and I already wasted a bit of time lost in the rain."