Redhawk Caldera But at dawn

One of the two started to laugh, though Eljay didn't blame her; he hadn't intended to joke, but he knew that the way he said it was kind of funny. For someone who didn't know anything about the context (and it seemed she didn't have a clue what was going on) he imagined that it must be confusing and hard to read the situation. He decided to ignore her because in Eljay's own experience of doing embarrassing things, that took pressure off another person the best. He couldn't keep himself from shooting her a quick smile though, hopefully with enough friendly energy so that she knew he didn't think poorly of her for the slip-up.

His focus easily shifted back to the spooked wolf, who said that he wasn't looking for her. Then why did he..? Oh. Eljay blinked, looking surprised to hear that someone from his pack would do such things. He couldn't imagine anyone would attack unprovoked. Oh, he said, blinking, growing confused now as he wondered what this wolf was even doing here if he 1) had been attacked previously by a wolf from this pack and 2) was definitely not looking to reunite with said wolf. Why even show up? But at least it explained why he looked so spooked.

Soon a few questions were answered; he mentioned that they settled in Blackfeather Woods. Now if he hadn't mentioned growing up there, Eljay might've just nodded and then said that maybe they'd want to like.. change the name or something. But when the wolf said that latter bit, a frown fell over Eljay's face. He sized up the other, as if trying to gauge how old they were. Youngish, he supposed when he thought of it. Maybe around Weejay's age? It was a bit of a shock for him to realise that Weejay was so.. adult already. He was still her little girl, after all.

He wondered if this wolf was somebody's little boy, still; somebody who'd been there during the wars.

Eljay swallowed thickly as he banished the bad memories from his one visit to Blackfeather Woods. Oh. Well. I... That sort of explains it..? It was a little weird to stand here and chat amicably like this if these were the old Blackfeather Woods wolves' descendants. They seemed friendly enough, however. Eljay glanced from wolf to wolf and said, It... There's been a war between our wolves in the past, years ago — between Redhawk Caldera and Blackfeather Woods.