Redhawk Caldera no sunlight, no sunlight anymore.

Finley would have been happy for her mate to simply steal away into the den for some rest, but he lingered outside with her in awkward silence. She was trying to think of how to encourage him to go in without making things even more uncomfortable when he moved towards her. Fin's body tensed as he reached for her, but she didn't lean away. She stayed still as he touched the tip of his nose to hers - a gesture that had always meant so much to them. It was how she used to tell him that she loved him before she even realized that she did. It had always made everything okay between them.

But that was before. Now, his touch did little more than press the crushing weight of her guilt down upon her even more intensely. Fin wanted to cry, to run, to dissolve into the pile of worthless garbage that she was and beg for forgiveness for all she'd done - things he didn't even know about yet. But the moment he knew, it would be over. So, it had to remain a secret, one which she stored right alongside the ones she already kept from him. She had gotten past that before - she would get past this as well. Somehow.

"You know, it's well past time we moved to the rendezvous site," Fin said after giving her mate a forced smile. She looked back at her sleeping son, "Do you think Peregrine and Fox would mind new neighbors?" They had lived not too far from the alphas before Eljay had been born, so she doubted they would mind now. Maybe things would be better if Jay could be closer to the rest of his family. Maybe even she would be helped by a little change of scenery. The hope was faint, but it was there.