Redhawk Caldera Back at base, bugs in the software

With that, it was decided. The pack would seek shelter within the caldera itself, leaving the swarms of locusts to do their damage to the outside world. Elwood glanced around at the wolves that had gathered there -- two of whom were unfamiliar, but smelled enough like Peregrine and Fox to indicate that they were newer members -- and then his gaze landed on Eljay. The boy's late arrival was anything but subtle as he pressed himself against his mother, and Elwood reached out to give him a gentle nudge with his nose.

Finley handled the situation with surprising grace, however. She reassured the youth and then pinned him with a task: to help keep the firebirds together. He distinctly remembered the frantic search for Wildfire and Nightjar after the storm and would do everything he could to keep that from happening again. Surely Eljay would prove to be especially useful, what with his affinity for the four rambunctious boys.

The Beta male moved along with the rest of the group, heading dutifully into the cave that would become their home for the next few days.