Redhawk Caldera There was a shift in the paradigm

Wanna fade with them going off...? :)

Elwood appeared to chew on the idea a moment before proposing they venture just beyond the borders to look for Finley. Of course, they wouldn't find her there. He knew it. Elwood knew it. But it couldn't hurt to comb it over anyway, Peregrine supposed. And Elwood Jr didn't seem bothered that they wouldn't be going far at all. The Alpha could see that the whole thing enthused and heartened the boy. It was worth the effort for that alone.

"You know about tracking prey, right?" Peregrine said. The pup and his father had been hunting just previously, so it was more or less a rhetorical question. "The same skills apply here. Use your eyes, ears and nose to search for any signs of your mother. Just don't eat her if you find her," he added lightly, winking his good eye. The Alpha wolf then exchanged a glance with Elwood Sr over Elwood Jr's back, then started to move.

After they spent a few hours searching (fruitlessly), he would gather up a genuine search party, making one last sweeping effort before calling off the rescue effort and asking the pack to accept Finley's fate.