Redhawk Caldera Little Eden

He knew it would come up- but it didn't come up the way he'd expected. He'd thought that Towhee might have had more to say from her perspective about Niamh's disappearance, considering their fallout. He didn't stop to consider that she might ever suspect that he had done something, after having made an offer- albeit jokingly- to slay his mother and make it look like an accident. He wondered why perhaps she hadn't said how she felt about Niamh wandering off, probably because she had mixed feelings about it, same as him. He wasn't so much concerned about his mother, though he had every right to be. She was pregnant, and she'd had a broken leg- there was a high chance that something bad could have happened to her, and that she wouldn't have had the strength or speed to fight it off. But what did cause him to fret and worry was the fact that his siblings had been taken with her. Whatever consequences Niamh suffered were directly caused by her own actions- but it was incredibly unfair for her to have jeopardized the lives of the kids by leaving. It wasn't fair. Those were Phox's children too- just as they were Towhee's niblings, and his siblings. 

-"Phox'll find them,"- He said. After all- how far could Niamh have gone in that state? It went without having to say that he wasn't sure what state Phox would find them in if and when he did find them...But all they could do was hope that he found them in time. He clenched his jaw slightly; unwilling to speak much more about a situation that he couldn't possibly control or fix. But he did appreciate Towhee's sympathy, even if he wasn't able to say it. 

So when Towhee alluded to Meerkat and Fennec, his posture relaxed a bit, and he smiled- though it was a bit of a guilty smile. He'd yet to see Meerkat, and he did feel a bit bad that he hadn't intentionally tracked her down yet. As it was, he was quite preoccupied with Towhee's eldest daughter, and that realization made his cheeks grow a bit warm. Maybe he should tell Towhee- but he also probably should have asked permission...He'd missed that boat, though, several times over, so he figured he should probably just try and hide some of his current, guilty pleasure to avoid getting booted out of the pack so soon after joining. Fortunately, he thought he could get away with the somewhat ashamed smile and nod- before latching on easily to the topic of Towhee's newest children, and their abundant excrement. -"Yeah, I kind of forgot about that part, with babies. Even shitty babies are cute, though,"- He said. -"Fennec says you have four of them this year?"- He asked, with an eager smile. That was quite an impressive batch of kids, as far as he knew.