Broken Antler Fen Everyone you love has built it

Things were leaner lately and Maia didn't do all that well with hardship.  She'd gone hungry before but not often, and she felt more and more anxious as time went on.  She hadn't managed to find anything today, let alone catch it.  Just birds in the trees, too high to get to.  Even then, whatever food she did find would go to her kids first.

Despite all of that, Maia didn't want to leave.  If @Eljay had already spoken with her about it, she kept the thoughts to herself, but it was a worry she had thought of herself too.  If the territory couldn't support them then they didn't really have a choice.

But they'd found this place, her and Wraen.  They'd explored it, named it, named the pieces inside it and found stories in the trees and the rivers.  Leaving would feel a little like losing her all over again, even though she knew that was stupid.  Home was people, not places... but Eljay had never agreed with that.  If anyone would understand, he would.  She just couldn't say it because as much as she hated leaving, if it meant  going to the Caldera... she'd already been selfish once.  That was doubtless where Eljay would look first for a new home.

It made her wonder again where the wolves who had lived there had disappeared to.  She was a little upset on her mate's behalf that none of them bothered to stop by, but personally she didn't care so much (so long as they were okay, of course!). 

C'mon.  Please?  She nosed through a thin layer of undergrowth near Warden's Watch, but came up empty.  If there are forest guardians here, why do you want us to leave?. Maia felt her eyes misting up and blinked a few times to stop it.  That wouldn't help.  She just had to keep looking.