Sun Mote Copse Would you stay

Quetzal certainly seemed in a good mood as she came bursting in. Eljay returned a soft-spoken hey along with a smile when he saw Quetzal come into view. He hadn't been as heavily involved in Niamh and Phox' litter, not as much as he had with the other litters in his time in.. well, any pack, any time, really. It was mostly because his parents had died and then he'd gotten over-coddling with Meerkat and Towhee, but then as Niamh hadn't even told him about her pregnancy, Eljay had just clicked shut and had stopped interacting altogether. He felt a little guilty about that, though it seemed like Phox and Niamh had managed just as well. It contributed to some degree to his feeling that the pack didn't really need him, anyway, as he thought of how close-knit the rest of the pack was to each other; and not so much to him.

Uh, well — Eljay was about to explain what he was even doing when Quetzal suddenly started digging all over the place. I was just checking on some old herb stores to see if they'd been completely drowned or not. They're not there -- though you're welcome to keep digging, if you want. Eljay grinned as he said the latter; he didn't want to spoil Quetzal's fun nor her good mood, so if she wanted to dig, she was welcome to keep doing that.