Redhawk Caldera When she sleeps there is a fever dream

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Meerk tag for visibility AND BECAUSE YOU'RE IT <3

Frost covered the grasses in the Glen when Bronco woke, not long before dawn. He'd begun to notice that it took longer and longer for the sun to rise every day, and that his natural sleeping pattern hadn't exactly adjusted to match the length of the nights. He generally maintained a biphasic sleep pattern through the night regardless, which had him up and patrolling through the middle of the night but returning to sleep for a few more hours before dawn broke. With the nights stretching further into the morning, though, he found himself up and on his feet in time to watch the horizon begin to brighten.

He'd let @Meerkat know that he would be going to the Caldera for a quick visit, but had made it fairly clear with his quiet tone that he intended to make the journey on his own. He didn't like implying that he didn't want her company, but he simply didn't have it in him to put on a cheerful face just for the sake of being a good travel companion. He figured she'd sensed by then that something was up, but he hadn't felt like talking about it.

So he wasn't sure why he went to the Caldera- and he spent most of his journey there trying to figure out why he was even going there. It wasn't like he wanted to go to talk to his Mom and figure things out- so maybe he just wanted a distraction, and maybe he just wanted to get away from the Glen for a bit. Maybe if he made this into some kind of job, he could get away with telling himself that he was useful, somehow.

He'd thought at first when he saw the extinct volcano reaching up into the blossoming blue sky that the borders might be along the upper edge but he was wrong- he found himself facing scent markings left behind by Towhee, @Phox and several others before he even began to climb- so he waited. He didn't want to call out, because he didn't want it to seem like he'd come to the Caldera for any particular reason...If asked, he wasn't sure what he'd say. It was simply easier to just play it off as a “I was just in your neck of the woods” sort of deal, and began meandering around in the area, figuring that someone would be by soon enough, and wondering if they had some food stashed away somewhere that he could nab- the journey had made him hungry.