Heron Lake Plateau Discussing conspiracies and prison facilities

The word that Quixote initially filled the blank with was 'together,' and chuckled briefly at that pause -- at least until his brain caught up.  Oh yeah, he should maybe talk to Raven about that too, shouldn't he?  With the promotion and then just.. Getting used to everything, basically, the fact that they'd left their status kind of a question mark had pretty well been left on the back burner.  It was pretty easy to assume things now, as he finally figured what might have been the correct word to put in that gap, and to a certain point Quixote had been assuming too -- his inner dialog would happily say things he wouldn't dare to out loud.  Honestly, he felt a little guilty about it, so figuring out how to solve that err was something that was going on his list with an expected completion date of, '???'

There was also another issue brought forward.  What did he mean?  Like Eljay in the den when the pups were being born?  Quixote wasn't sure he liked the idea, but at the same time, the kid seemed pretty harmless and in the end the choice would almost certainly be Raven's.  Quixote did his best to disguise his low level suspicion as just being uncertain and thoughtful, replying with a nod, Yeah, probably a good idea.  I dunno exactly how long she's got before they arrive, but probably less time than's already passed.  Which was a pretty accurate assessment.  Probably.  The alpha was totally not into nitty gritty medical stuff.

You know what?  Some other topic would totally be more comfortable, wouldn't it?  Good thing that deer track was there!  Tracking them down would be good.  Looks like they maybe went to the lake and headed back over there?  He pointed sort of northeast.  Maybe the deer had hidden in the thicket thing with all the birds?  He dropped his head to start to pick up the scent from the obvious mark that had been left.