Redhawk Caldera goodnight, officers

At first, Nightjar was overjoyed. Even in adulthood, he didn't understand the messages in howls and imagined that his mother's summons was solely for him—after all, it had to be about the pups, and who should get the first honour of meeting the newest pups but their elder brother? There was a skip in his step as he headed briskly up the caldera, eager to meet them at last, but that all came to a crashing halt when he veritably danced onto the scene only to see Elwood was there as well.

And then the truth really dawned on him, smacked him in the face really, that it wasn't a howl for just him or even for just him and the Beta pair, and he froze at the edge of the clearing with a frown settling across his brow. Not only did he have to share his younger brothers with Eljay, but now he would have to share them with the entire pack, even the newbies. He hadn't been invited to meet them before the rest of the pack got the opportunity.

Feeling overlooked and put out, the Gamma remained where he was, head lowered with disappointment and upset as his eyes darted questioningly between his parents. He'd been wildly excited to meet his siblings and now all the wind had whisked out of his sails faster than he could blink. He couldn't help but wonder if being reduced to meeting them with the rest of the pack, rather than having big brother privileges, was his punishment for telling Eljay to get lost, and even more horribly, he insecurely wondered if perhaps he had been forgotten, or was even unwanted around the pups, in all the hullabaloo.