Sun Mote Copse thread.exe

Maia seemed pretty excited about the thought of him joining her, and Eljay smiled, grateful that she wouldn't see him as a strain as much as he expected. That's great, Eljay said, a little awkwardly because the response was so much more positive than what he had expected. Maia's enthusiasm was pretty infectuous, even though it didn't look much like it was on the outside of Eljay. He was starting to less look up to going along now, especially knowing that Maia was good at navigating.

As she asked where he had traveled, Eljay's ears fell back and he looked a little caught out. Oh, uh.. He couldn't really remember where he'd been, really. I grew up at Redhawk Caldera, and I didn't really leave much, I guess. I went to the lake outside of the Caldera once... ... And he'd seen someone die there... I left home when I was two, I think. I saw some plains and mountains and the ocean then. I joined a pack called Drageda for a while, but when they went to war with this other pack I was supposed to stay back but I -- The Caldera wolves were there too and I was afraid that mom would get hurt, so I followed them and went back to the Caldera. That was pretty much the only time he'd been outside of a Blackthorny home. Then we moved the Caldera to the Plateau, and then I moved here when Wiffle started the pack. Like I said, I... Don't really leave the territory much. It's pretty dangerous outside. That was his experience in life. He didn't understand why other wolves didn't seem to see the dangers, including some of the wolves that he held dearest.