Bramblepoint can you hear me now?

I'm gonna segue this smoothly into the thread I just posted! :D

Peregrine shook his head. "No, sorry. I think he must've met your mom after he left the caldera. That's why he left, you know." He peered sideways at the youth. "He wanted to lead his own pack, find a mate, start a family." How exactly that had panned out for Duty, Peregrine couldn't say for sure. He knew none of the details. The two of them had unfortunately lost touch, never really speaking again aside from that tense howled back-and-forth that one time.

They were nearly there, their shadows stretching out before them to touch the mountain's base as the sun began to set at their backs. Before guiding the boy into the innermost fold of his home, Peregrine slowed and paused. "It's so much more than a rock," he mused in delayed response before answering his second question by saying, "Yep. And guess what? You signed up to get a weird one too."

So far, he hadn't so much as touched the pup. Peregrine reached out now to give the young male's shoulder the lightest of nudges. "C'mon," he said simply as he strode toward his own borderlands, "let's do this."