Sun Mote Copse now it's hard to breathe

maybe the thread where @Finley and @Elwood invite Eljay & pups to live with them? forward dated to just after Colt's pack meeting.

Eljay just didn't know what to do. Mommy had already had to attend him to look after @Elfie that day when Wiffle died, but he just didn't know how to pick himself off the ground. He knew very well that he should be a good father to Elfie and @Weejay, but he was just feeling so broken all the time. He had been crying all the time since Wiffle had died. Every time he stopped crying he felt that he had run out of tears, but every time he started to cry all over again when the littlest thing happened that reminded him of Wiffle.

Eljay sat and stared at the glinstening stone that he had brought Wiffle a few months ago -- the one he'd plucked from their den at Redhawk Caldera, the one that reminded him of Wiffle because she'd given it to him when he was but a baby. He didn't remember that, of course, but he remembered that it had always been there. Now this stone still sat here, but she did not. It was so unfair.

He raised his head and glanced around for the pups, who had been nearby sleeping just a moment ago. Eljay decided he would try to do something fun with them or get them some food in their bellies, just as he had that day with Elfie when Wiffle had been sick.