Heron Lake Plateau ashes against the grain

Haha, yeah!  I don't think it'd be necessarily super duper dramatic that way since the pups be smol, but a little. XD

It was definitely a weird feeling to have a pup trying to remove one of his toes or something.  He couldn't quite see since he was watching Raven, but at least it didn't feel like Owen was secretly trying to kill him or something.  But Colt with Niamh?  He snorted, as if the thought sounded like complete nonsense, and given the two guys' last conversation, it sort of was, Dunno, why would she be?  He hadn't had contact with either of them directly in... how long?  The fact that he realized Colt hadn't showed up to the den at all had started to grate on his nerves -- not to see the pups, not to say hi to either of them, let alone to work out his issues by talking to Raven.  The fact that Colt apparently also was way more sensitive than he liked to pretend to be -- or maybe just wanted Quixote to suddenly lose all his flaws and be some sort of compassionate and understanding dude, as if -- was a different issue.  Seriously, if Colt hadn't been expecting a direct response and an attempt to flatly dissect the problem from Quixote, what was he thinking?  In which case maybe Qui had misjudged him entirely and it would have been better if he hadn't gone out of his way to drag Colt back into the pack.