Blacktail Deer Plateau Unfortunate Catching Up

Remains. Grayday blinked, thoughts beginning to whirl behind his shellshocked expression. A little boy on their borders. A silver body curled up beside his daughter's. Two cubs with their heads bent together, voices hushed in secret council. "I should have sent someone with you," he said, face slowly beginning to crumble. "Anything could have happened to you and Dauntless. You must have been so afraid - "

He'd promised Mawk that Burr would return in the spring. How must the man feel, losing a son he was looking forward to regaining? Grayday felt as though he'd lost a son, and Burr had meant far less to him than any of his children. And his children...

"Oh, god," he murmured, hanging his head. "How are we gonna tell Easy?"