Duck Lake the choice is yours

Leaving Swiftcurrent Creek and Bazi had been difficult, as was watching Shadow leave without her. She regretted many things, but it was letting him go that had been the toughest. Before they parted ways those long few days ago, he had told her something that she'd been trying to avoid for reasons unknown. He said that he loved her. Whether there was truth behind those words or not, or whether she felt the same for him just yet, they did not matter. She followed her heart, and her heart led her to Duck Lake where she'd asked her sterling outrider to wait for her.

And as she appeared at the brow of a hill that led to the water's edge, with the sun setting at her back, Paarthurnax looked across the shore to find him there, awaiting her arrival.

She went to him at once, her heart ablaze with a flurry of emotion, and she loped quickly down the slope to greet him enthusiastically with a burst of yips, nips and kisses. Everything around her went unnoticed or cast aside for the time being: the dead ducks, the fact that Shadow was sudden wet, the pain she felt at leaving her home behind, the sorrow for poor banished Danica. She instead focused on Shadow and her delight at seeing him again, and knew that she'd made the right decision to stand at his side.