Redhawk Caldera Gubraithian fire

"Oh, of course," Eljay hastily said when Wildfire said she would rather not tell him all the details. "I shouldn't have asked." He hadn't realised that it may be terrible, and he wondered what happened to her still. It must've been terrible that she wished not to speak of it.

Wildfire then said that he should go back if he was sure he wanted to. He smiled weakly, considering that Wildfire surely had to know that he never knew anything for sure... The pack would be so empty without her, but he also thought of Blixen and how upset she had been that he wished to stay here. He didn't want to disappoint her. "I... Okay," he said, a confused frown on his face while he tried to piece together what Wildfire was really trying to say. His breath came and fell in short breaths while he tried hard not to get lost in the panicked webs of his mind, while he tried to think. What should he do? Maybe what she was trying to say was the same as Towhee — that he should make a decision. But how could he, when all he wanted to do was to stay here but all he needed to do was to stop bothering the Caldera, to grow up, to be a man, to... All of the things he couldn't do. He'd thought it would be easier upon leaving the Caldera, but it felt like everything had just gotten worse.