Blacktail Deer Plateau shiver my timbers (join)

The Alpha male tore himself away from Hawkeye and the pups long enough to perform a cursory patrol. As he walked along the borders, he mused about the fact that Ty had ended up a girl instead of a boy. He supposed he did feel a vague sense of... it wasn't disappointment, exactly, because he was thrilled to have his daughters. It was a strange sense of loss, as if he'd known his son, only he'd never actually existed in the first place...

"That's what you get for trying to be a psychic," he said to himself with a quiet laugh when the sound of footfalls gave him pause. Pricking his ears, he gazed along the line of the plateau just in time to watch a dark, youthful figure race to the borders. His head cocked as he caught the young stranger's scent. It was a male. Well, here's my boy now, Peregrine joked to himself.

Trotting down the slope to meet the young male, Peregrine assumed a dominant posture. He gave the stranger a hard, curious look as he asked, "Who or what are you running from, young man?" Perhaps because of his recent status as a new father, there was a softness to his voice that simply hadn't ever been there before. As he continued to regard the youngster, he suddenly reminded Peregrine so much of Atticus when he was younger.