Swiftcurrent Creek Does this count as an emergency?

Valiant was still confused about what had happened before, with his mother and the stranger. It all seemed like a bad dream to him now, and he tried not to think about it because it hurt to remember how excited he'd been to smell his mother and then to see her, but Dad hadn't been happy at all, and there was something that hadn't seemed right but as long as it remained unacknowledged, everything was going to be fine.

"Okay," he agreed when his father told him to have fun and play. He was excited to see his aunt again, and wondered if she really looked as much like his father as he remembered. More so than that, he remembered how glad he had felt upon meeting her, and wanted desperately for that feeling to be renewed. Now that she was so close and yet still out of sight, he pined for her terribly, pressing close to Minnow and Aeryn because they, too, gave him great comfort.