Heron Lake Plateau have you ever felt the warm embrace

Yeah, Qui was pretty chill about it.  What was the point of yelling or something?  The only mess Tegan had really made was by snarking at Kiwi at the wrong time.  Him not showing up when expected was more annoying than anything -- things didn't always go to plan, as Tegan went on to explain.  Screech.  Quixote frowned at that news -- like seriously, couldn't that dude like actually die and stay dead instead of continuing to exist?  That would be great.  The hell was he doing over here again?  Note to self, step up patrols.  Firebirds aside, at least we were right that the one that came here saying he was dead was lying.  Hopefully that's a facade they're wanting to keep up, so they leave us alone.  But we'll have to keep an eye out if they're traveling this far -- and make sure everyone knows.  Hell, explaining that to the kids was not gonna be fun.  Adults or not, there were some things that he wished they didn't have to hear -- and other things he wasn't going to tell them.

Either way, it seemed kind of reasonable to Quixote.  Well.  Minus the thing at Firebirds -- they could deal with that later, because hey, Quixote wasn't entirely sure what the best approach to that was either.  It was probably something to have Tegan and Raven discuss, because that whole being all nice and polite thing wasn't his jam.  Either way, an enemy had showed up at their doorstep so Tegan had followed him back to his nest and returned to report without engaging.  It was certainly a good deal better than the previous immediate adventure that had happened.

Still.  That did leave one thing here, which now nagged at him, Why didn't you just come find one of us, though?  Why was he here instead? A howl from the borders was kind of odd from his perspective.  Adventures happened, and any other time someone ran off, they hadn't been stripped of their rank.  But of course they hadn't known  that Tegan had ditched his rank and the pack.  Nobody told Redhawks at least, but having the whole thing happen with a howl at the borders edge made the whole thing feel more at arm's length than he would have expected.