Blacktail Deer Plateau i can't stop drinking about you

Although Bones looked up to Fox, she felt a little appalled by the way she spoke to Ira, cursing at him and threatening to kill him simply for looking out for her. The yearling backpedaled a few feet in reaction to the acid leaking from her former captain's mouth. She shook her head lightly, as if bothered by a fly, though this stopped when first Dante and then Fox explained her father's condition.

It seemed not only Ira but Bones herself wasn't welcome on the plateau, despite having visited in the past and even playing with Peregrine's young pups at the time. Was Fox punishing her for refusing to relocate here or perhaps for hanging with Ira? Bones didn't know but her insides ached suddenly. Her chest felt tight. This all felt wrong. But it wasn't her place to question Fox's decrees, even if they pained her.

Bones sniffed and swiped a paw across her eyes, where tears still fell, hot and thick. "Please t-tell me dad I came to see him and that I'll come back... or, if he's well enough, he can c-come find me in the creek. I think we'd better go." As these words slipped off her tongue, she looked at Fox with hurt floating in her eyes, then bowed her head to both leaders before turning and nudging Ira away from the plateau.