Morningside Cuesta if you can't be good, be gone

Okay, no more posting order or rounds. I'm going to close this up in a week or two. Anyone who has something to say can say it.

Grayday shook his head regretfully. The time to look for Hawthorn was long past. "I'm sorry, Kieran. He's been gone for months, now - the best thing we can do is hope we'll see him again. I left home when I wasn't much older than you are, and I still managed to run into family again." Eventually. He felt for the boy, but there wasn't anything Grayday could do.

He looked toward Dawn, proud that she'd made a suggestion, but not convinced that it would be the best place to go. "I don't know if we should be moving further into the colder region for winter," he said with a small smile, tail wagging to show he was still pleased by her participation. "More tree cover would be ideal, though."

"Think we should move back west a ways - on the other side of that mountain range, there's a field of hotsprings. It's right next to Silvertip Mountain, actually, but I don't think we'll settle there. A scouting trip might be in order."

He looked to Dawn and Sunspot as he said this, wondering if the two would be up for a bit of an expedition.