Blacktail Deer Plateau Change makes me nervous

When she told him this made her uncomfortable, Peregrine said, "I meant individually, though together would be great," and punctuated this statement with a small smile as he let her finish. "You know I'm an advocate for taking things slow; we just talked about it." He returned her teasing smile. "I just know that both you and Atticus would each make great parents. Like I said, whether that happens between the two of you or with other people, I don't care. I still look forward to it."

Sliding forward onto his belly and gazing at the slumbering pups, he mused, "I hope the pups are young enough and Hawkeye and I are mature enough that they hardly notice there's a problem. It's occurred to me that they might feel like they have to choose sides or even as if, god forbid, they had something to do with the split. I don't want any of that. I may not be in love with her anymore," he finished, now looking at Blue Willow, "but Hawkeye is still their mother. I would never want anything coming between a child and its mother. And same goes for a child and its father, if I do say so myself. I want our kids to be as close to each of us as you were to yours and I was to mine."