Morningside Cuesta Got Me Thinking Like Crazy

His ears flickered uncertainly when she apologized, and he wondered why he wasn't the one doing so. "Don't worry about it," he said with a wag of his tail. "I guess we're trying to start over, too. Me and the kids. There were a lot of... feelings... in our old pack, I mean. I thought it was time to get out of there, though I did plan on going back, when we first set out."

He'd brought a lot of those feelings with him by taking Adeline along, but they'd patched up some of the worst of their problems, and the male really did feel less guilty about that than he had in Easthollow. It wasn't, perhaps, the healthiest of changes, but it was certainly a pleasant one.