Blacktail Deer Plateau that western skyline

Paging @Lavender and @Dauntless for a bit of family time!

Grayday had been busy, lately, but that didn't mean he was making the same mistakes he had when Sunny and Dawn were small. He spent much of his days with his three children, keeping them occupied while the four of them waited for Khoe to return. A part of him that'd slept for some time, now, began to rear its ugly head once more. He wanted to be angry at his wife, and to curse the name of his god for the cards he'd been dealt; that he had been abandoned twice, now, by the bone of his bone, the flesh of his flesh. Two litters, left without a mother...

But he made a point not to dwell on that fact, and somehow, kept himself afloat on a raft of dubious and waning hope, rather than succumbing immediately to the anger that fought so stridently to be released once more. And thus, he was able to sit docily with his chilren as they days dragged by, turning the summer of their infancy into the autumn of their youth. Very soon, he would begin to teach them to hunt. For now, he watched over them while they played.