Heron Lake Plateau home is where your heart is

It would be nice to have mommy and daddy there, too, when they went for a trip. Eljay couldn't help his eyes shimmering with something -- hope, maybe? -- when Wildfire said that she had joked about mommy and daddy claiming the Caldera again. What a great day it would be if that were true. But what about the threat from Blackfeather woods? Would they stay at bay..? Before he could respond in any other way than physically showing how much the idea of living back home meant to him -- soft shining eyes, a dreamy smile on his face -- Wildfire added that it would be good to pay respects to her parents and Eljay nodded in agreement. "Yeah, it will." Now he couldn't help but feel giddy about this trip. He couldn't wait until they'd go.

Wildfire's next question caught Eljay off guard. He'd already forgotten she had asked him before and he had been too baffled and happy to see Wildfire to respond. The truth was, he didn't have that much to say: most of what 'his life' was now was the lives of others. "Oh, not much. I've mostly been helping raise Raven's pups, so that's been really nice. And thinking about things, I guess. I try to do patrolling when I do that, so I... But it's mostly looking after the pups that's still my task. And I have been trying to learn about uhm, healing wounds and stuff." Not that he had much experience on actual wounds; luckily, there weren't that many wounded in the pack, and if there were, then he had completely missed them all.