Redhawk Caldera He's just a different kind of kid

She was right at least in thinking she was hearing him wrong, but what he said next had her pause. It should have been an immediate yes, but shit was complicated and he was serious. She could tell by the way he paused as he said it, as if he was looking for the right way to phrase the question. She didn't want to answer unless she meant what she said.

The Caldera had worked, but... not for her. She loved it here, but the truth of it was, she'd never fully stepped into any role to the extent she'd wanted to. No matter how hard she tried to, she'd never managed to fill the space left by Eljay, and she wondered if that was because of how different they were. Fennec might have been the actual mother of the two, but she wasn't the mothering type, and maybe the Caldera just needed someone more like him. Someone more like Raven.

She knew her mom would miss her, but running through the pack's members, that might honestly be the only real impact they'd have. Towhee would understand, right?

Besides, this doesn't count as running. He's asking. Her mom, and the rest of them, would be able to figure it out. She hadn't thought much about the idea since tossing it, but now that she was on it again, she felt that previous excitement kicking in. She didn't want to get too invested but fuck, she loved the whole vibe of it.

Yeah. I think that'd be cool. If you're sure. I mean... it might be just us, for a while. I'm pretty damn amazing, but I'm not a pack. And Killdeer is getting older. So... I guess he might not come either. If that was the case, then there was no reason for Bronco to do this with her aside from actually wanting to. She'd fuck anyone up who tried to mess with him, but she couldn't do that from half a territory away. And there'd be no more avoiding him.

It would have been so easy to just say yes, but she could already feel herself getting way too into this idea. She had no way of knowing if these last few weeks had been enough for him to really do something like this.