Sun Mote Copse Fairest of the seasons

She asked why they left, and Phox remembered why he had left. Was that the same reason the rest of the pack had abandoned their namesake caldera, too? It was hard to remember, especially since there was plenty of stuff he didn't recall from before his concussion. Do you remember when I first showed up at Heron Lake Plateau? he asked. Towhee had greeted him, but it was Niamh who had been the first wolf who had shown him any amount of kindness. It was hard to believe that there had once bene such a rift between himself and Towhee, considering how close they were now, and he wondered if they would be just as close if he had stuck around at Redhawk Caldera. There was no way to know, not really.

Towhee was really angry with me then. Redhawk Caldera was about to go to war with another pack, I was just a kid, so I got the hell outta dodge. I wanted nothing to do with it. I guess that's kinda how I feel about Kingslend, too. There's plenty of land in this world, so what's the use of fighting over it? Sure, some parts of this world were a little nicer than others, and he would be a little sad to leave the copse with its hazy days and comfy afternoons. But there was plenty to enjoy at the caldera, too.

I wasn't here for it, but I guess they ended up leaving shortly after that. Towhee probably knows the specifics since she was here for it all. Raven was, too. That made him wonder what it had been like for Niamh. What was it like when you joined the Redhawks? He knew that Towhee didn't like not-Redhawks very much, although as she got older, he had noted some of that had worn off (as it had for him, too). Recruiting for the grove had helped "cure" him of that, more or less. Couldn't be picky when you needed the numbers!