Blacktail Deer Plateau all the kids are right

Grayday pressed closer to Catori, a wave of relief so strong it made him feel weak in the knees when swept through him. She was fine. (The male couldn't help but think back to another place, another time, another woman. The fear of not knowing if he'd hurt his daughter, and the poisonous anger that'd been directed at her mother for withholding the information.

But she was fine. He'd tear that woman apart if he ever saw her again, but he could rest easy tonight knowing his daughter was safe and sound.

"We're gonna fix you all up, baby," he promised, tacking his own words of comfort onto Raid's.

And then Raid was turning to him, talking about his eye and his sight, and the words all ran together for the sterling male. He wasn't sure what had even happened, except that it'd hurt, and he couldn't see out of that eye at the moment.

"How bad is it?" he asked, nuzzling Catori for comfort before lowering himself to his belly so that Raid could examine his face. "What happened?"