Redhawk Caldera Music Walnut

"Oh, okay, no harm done then," Birk added with and awkward smile and, since after that he was at a loss of how to drive the conversation further, he sat down and scratched the side of his neck. 

"Hard to say... I arrived early this year," it had still been very cold with a lot of snow. Memories of his frostbites were not the most pleasant ones and he shuddered thinking about the rotting and bleeding wounds that had been so very difficult to treat.

"What about you - where have you been?" he asked out of curiousity, because it seemed that most of the former alpha's children were very territorial and preferred to stick around the caldera.