Broken Antler Fen sleeping for years

Things had been peaceful in Brecheliant, and it was nice; Eljay needed some peace, considering that home life was still rather chaotic. Even though apart from Diantha, the children seemed to be doing well enough (as far as Eljay could tell), it was still a lot to have five children all at once, of which three were adopted and struggling with the death of their mother. Eljay knew what it was like to raise children who had lost their mother, though it helped that right now, the grief that he felt was less intense than when Wildfire had died (even though he, too, was working through his grief for Ibis and most of all Wraen, whom had been his friend for a long time). He could be there more for his own children, adopted and biological, now. More than he had been able for Elfie and Weejay.

Eljay was lounging outside the den at the Cove (which is where I pictured the napping den / now Blackthorn den is) and was thinking of things to do with the kids. He hoped that @Sylvie or @Hymnal would join him so they could do something fun together; maybe splash about in the water a bit together, now that they were a little older and the risk of them getting hurt was smaller.