Redhawk Caldera hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say

Oh? She was genuinely surprised to hear that Phox had stopped by. What if Niamh returned to Yuelong in his absence? Then Alyx remembered that there was a whole pack living there, not just her dad. Surely they would have said something to Niamh if that happened. Phox wasn't here anymore, though, so that definitely meant he hadn't found her mother yet.

I left Sapphique to go looking for her to the north. I went a long way up the coast, then around some mountains and back down. No sign of her. Alyx's defeated look had more to do with having no good news than not finding her mother. She still had mixed feelings about Niamh, though if she knew the truth, no doubt she would quickly learn just how much her mom still meant to her. Like Fennec, though, she didn't relish talking about it much.

So what's new here? she wondered, leaning a little more to the chipper side, unaware as she was of all that had transpired, and little of it good.