Blacktail Deer Plateau o father (in law) where art thou

he noted grayday's bland look, and his smile grew to a grin again. he did know. and was evidently okay with it, given his silence on the matter. a thrill of excitement and relief, mixed all together in a happy way, coursed through him, and adi was opening his mouth to speak until grayday did so himself. 

"catori?" he asked rhetorically. he remembered the woman fairly well, though they had only met the once. beautiful woman, kind disposition. she would be great for grayday. "shabaash! that's, uh, that means 'well done.' really. . .congratulations," he added, his eyes bright. 

and this almost certainly meant another litter of half-siblings for dawn. aditya liked catori. he hoped, feeling now some trepidation, that she would stick around longer than grayday's other two mates had.