Blacktail Deer Plateau Unfortunate Catching Up

Grayday gave a shaky sigh. She was right, of course. Burr would still have been alone. Still - he hated to think of Pema and Dauntless at the scene, horribly grieved and completely alone. It would have been good for them to have had Shale alongside them, or Aditya or Dawn or even Sunny. Dauntless was not yet a warrior, and he must have been frightened. Pema must have felt helpless. He couldn't help but feel responsible for that.

"I don't like the idea of him burdening himself that way," the father said, the fur along his spine raising uncomfortably with the need to protect. He was too young to be giving such news, and yet, Grayday found himself unable to take away the boy's agency. The boy had to do what was on his heart. "One of us should be there to help. You or me or Cat," he decided. "You know the girls - Easy might lash out, and someone needs to be there to tell him she's wrong."