Golden Glade Control alternate delete

Having spent the day settling in with the rest of the pack, Raven was tired and emotionally spent. She could understand the mixed feelings from Rannoch's crew, but her own bunch didn't seem particularly enthused about the move and she couldn't understand why. The cover and protection of a forest would be vastly more comfortable in both the scorching heat and bitter cold of winter, to say nothing of the reduced burden of wading through elbow-deep snow atop the plateau's flat expanse too. Game was plentiful here, as were water and places to find solitude, while some of the plateau's most prominent hazards -- steep cliffs to fall from and a deep lake in which to drown -- were eliminated. They had everything they could want here. So why were so many of her packmates pissed? It wasn't like they had trekked for hundreds of miles across Middle Earth to a place nobody knew. This little glade was literally right at the plateau's doorstep. Miss home? Go hang out up there for a while!

Raven sighed as she worked her way in the direction from which Rannoch's howl had gone up, reminding herself that everyone had been equally salty when Towhee had moved them from the caldera to the plateau. It would take time, but eventually they would come to love the forest as they clearly had the plateau. Raven couldn't say the sentiment had ever applied to her -- she was glad to be off that naked, exposed tabletop of earth.

She reached Rannoch after some time and was surprised to find him in the company of none other than Phox. To say she hadn't expected to see Phox anytime soon was an understatement, given the tension of their last meeting. And while it stirred in her a mixture of emotions, both good and not so good, she nevertheless met her brother with that old familiar smile and a welcoming wave of her tail. "Hey Phox!" she greeted as she drew closer, flashing Rannoch a smile of thanks for his summons. "What's up? Didn't think I'd be seeing you or Tow for a while. Have you guys found a spot to settle?"