Heron Lake Plateau This is our second opportunity to escape our sins and start over.

Screech had wanted to find Raven and talk to her about some stuff, but as soon as he started to hunt her down, his paws took him away from her scent rather than towards it; before long he was closer to the descending plateau in the lower reaches of the territory, and gave up all hope of finding the Alpha when the sound of the falls began to fill his ears. Soon all he could hear was the white noise of the fast-moving water as it dumped from pleateau to plateau, which was exactly what he needed. Screech couldn't think very clearly with all the cacophony around him. He found a weird kind of solace in the noise, feeling the bass of the thundering water and easily deciding that he preferred the sound and sensation of it crashing around him.

But, as he was moving around one of the animal paths, he thought he saw a dark figure — or a trick of the light — some kind of silhouette moving around behind the falls that he had not anticipated. At first glance (fleeting though it was, and through one eye no less), he thought he'd somehow stumbled upon Raven. This gave him an opportunity to confront her about this Quixote business — blackmail not far from his mind — and he bee-lined for a path leading towards the darkness behind the falls, not realizing who he'd actually found there.