Blacktail Deer Plateau Quite The Stressful Day

"Yep...that's the Heartha I knew" he said quietly. He heard the crack in his voice and eyed Kieran closely. "Hawthorn...someone close?" He paused for a long while, before saying some words that he wasn't sure were the right to say, but at the time, he thought they were. 

"Kieran, you might know this already...you probably do already...but you gotta get past" Engel started to the boy. "One day, for any holes you have, you'll find someone. All right?" He playfully tapped Kieran's head with a paw. "Come on now, I'm sure Grayday's expecting something. Don't wanna keep him waiting, do we?"