Duskfire Glacier sunset dinner

She didn't know? She didn't know. And now he was faced with a rather difficult decision. He could let her go on not knowing until someone she knew better told her what had happened while she was gone, or he could tell her the truth now; something felt wrong about going with the former—pretending he didn't know while they ate, letting her go on from here still believing that the alpha lived. He was never very good at lying because it never really seemed like the right thing to do. 

He was quiet as they reached the cache. Tuulu watched Meerkat began to pull away the leaves that covered the meat. He helped, still silent and contemplating his next course of action. 

One the meat was exposed, he took a seat without pulling anything out. Meerkat, um— A hard swallow. Lane informed me just the other day that Wintersbane passed away. I'm sorry to be the one who tells you. She didn't know him at all and he didn't know the former alpha. None of this was ideal, but he couldn't just pretend nothing had happened.