Redhawk Caldera deer might fly, why not? i met you.

*pokes thread towards present day maybe* >___>

The moment he encouraged her to tell him, Fin began to completely doubt herself.  There was no way that Elwood was going to approve of this.  Even bringing it up would probably cause tension, and they had come so far to move past what Finley now referred to her in her mind as the "unfortunate incident".  But, she had already brought it up, and she wasn't feeling particularly clever enough to come up with some other terrible idea she could spit out as though it was what she'd intended to say all along.  So...

"I think I should take Eljay ranging with me," she blurted finally, then grit her teeth and flinched away from him as though she expected him to rage at her for suggesting something so stupid - which she did expect, for the record.  She had reasons for thinking it would be a good idea, but for the moment she held them back until she saw how he reacted to the first bit.