Heron Lake Plateau you can't cross the same river twice

Oh, she says, eyebrows raising, Huh.  She probably should've made more of an effort to spend time with the Redhawks' former alphas, but to be fair they were both... old.  And intimidating in their own right.  She preferred not to make a fool out of herself where they could.  But they'd raised Eljay (presumably), and he seemed nice enough...?  Anyway.

Puppies!  Yay.  Actually, she wasn't interested in puppies.  They kind of creeped her out.  He was right, it was interesting to see them grow up from barely-functioning blobs of fur and milk to actual real live people, but... the whole process scared her.  She'd never had a single mothering instinct in her body.  It kind of made her feel like a failure next to the other Blackthorn women.

I'm glad someone's there to take the heat off of Raven and Quixote, give them some time to do something other than spend time with the kids when they need some time.. just.. out, you know?  Was that dumb?  Are they really old enough to be walking and talking now?  She supposed she hadn't seen much of them lately.. maybe she should change that.