Heron Lake Plateau Eat your potatoes

Set the same day Nashoba is killed, whenever that'll be, vague about what happens in the end of that thread. :P  Tag can just be for reference, all welcome!

The events earlier in the day had thrown him off his schedule.  Obviously he didn't know if @Raven noticed since he was only returning to the den now, but he'd skipped the normal visit he'd do in the afternoon to avoid the sun. Instead, he wandered and checked more of the borders -- it gave him time to think.  It wasn't the fact that a trespasser had been killed that gnawed at him, but his own reaction at the start.  He'd made the right choices, that he was sure, but he'd been ready to kill whoever it was before he'd even found her.  Why?

It was now late in the evening -- the world getting dark but the sky still partially lit for a while longer.  He'd washed off before heading home, but since it was Quixote, he hadn't done a super amazing job at it.  Though most of the blood was visibly gone, there were still flecks in his fur and  few superficial scrapes he didn't even bother to deal with.  Maybe he'd just gotten into a fight with a thornbush.  Okay, yeah, not really.

He approached the den quietly but didn't enter, choosing to place himself beside the entry without saying a word.  Quixote was still a little bit wired from the conflict, wary of some new danger randomly showing up -- it wasn't like the borders had made much of a difference today.  Nah, he'd keep an eye out for a while, just in case.