Heron Lake Plateau searching

Eljay didn't think that he would make a poor father, but he wasn't too sure he'd make a good mate. He knew he shouldn't be looking to find love just for the sake of children. That just didn't seem a very good basis for a relationship. But Eljay did really want children, he found, and there he found himself at a bit of a standstill with himself. He supposed he'd just have to be happy enough to help raise the pups here; at least he had his position as midwife and puppysitter here in the Redhawks pack. It wasn't Redhawk Caldera, exactly, but it was at least the pack that also held his family.

"Thanks, dad," Eljay said and he smiled softly at his father. He wasn't too sure what else to say, since the issue was left hanging there: Both of them knew that he needed to find a girl if he wanted pups and Eljay wasn't too sure he ever would. He contemplated asking daddy for advice but at the same time he was still struggling with the whole ethical dilemma of wanting a mate mostly for the sake of becoming a father and that just didn't feel right.