Redhawk Caldera and a happy new year [birth]

Eljay felt emotion swell in his throat and he wished that things'd been different, that he had been here and that he had been able to help. Mommy had almost found the same fate earlier, and now it was aunt Fox that had died. He was worried for the pack's future, because what if mommy wanted more pups too, and what if the same thing would happen to her? Then he felt selfish and guilty for worrying about mommy when he should be grieving for aunt Fox alone. "I know..." he murmured in response to his parents' soothing, but he didn't know, not really; the guilt remained, and he could not yet let go of all of the 'what if's.

Daddy asked him if he wanted to stay with the pups or help with aunt Fox' body. Everything inside of his head screamed to stay with the pups, the living things, instead of face the dead body of his aunt, but he ended up saying: "I'll help bury the body." He didn't have milk, and maybe mommy would be able to better take care of the pups if he and daddy would take care of burying the body. He had nothing to offer them right now.

feel free to pp eljay helping with the body!