Blacktail Deer Plateau You can't take me, I'm free

We should have another thread soon. :D

Osprey asked a very pertinent question and Peregrine had an answer at the ready, even if it wasn't an easy one. "Which one matters more: pride or family? It's been really tough on me, trying to figure it out. I don't have it figured out," he admitted, his eyes dropping for a second, then lifting again when Osprey launched into a soliloquy about their brothers.

He listened without comment, his heart swelling in his chest. The only thing he did say was to murmur, "But I don't want them to leave..." He wanted them here, all four of them. They belonged together. Peregrine didn't see why this issue couldn't blow over or why he couldn't have Hawkeye, his rank and his brothers and sister by his side. Would Atticus or Crete really make him choose? He hoped not.

"Thank-you, Oss," he said in response to everything she'd said and her verbal reminder that she would always be there. "You're the best," he repeated, once more settling on the ground and closing his eyes. He didn't intend to fall asleep but when Osprey's warm head rested on his shoulder, he felt safe, and so he spun away into dreamland.