Blacktail Deer Plateau Beyond the veil

Kisu stared at the ground quietly and nodded to Peregrine's words. "I'll just stay here and make sure the pups are okay..." It seemed to be such a grand effort to talk in this moment. He was trying to cope, but everything was overwhelming; this was his second mate to die, and he wasn't even present to say good-bye, and his two pups were born. He would have time to grieve later, but now he was worried about his children. After he received the okay for him to enter, he and Hawkeye lay there in silence as the pups went from wiggling and suckling to sleep almost instantaneously, then back to drinking milk.