Broken Antler Fen Everyone you love has built it

Eljay smiled softly as Maia echoed his statement. She thanked him then, for loving the Fen too, even if it wouldn't have been his own initial choice to settle here. He'd done that for Maia — but along the way, he had grown to love it like she did. Eljay had gotten something of his own here. A place where he could be himself more unapologetically (because no one required him to apologise) than he ever could back at home. It was daunting in a way to return there now. Would the place remind him of all that he had lost and all that he had gained since he had left it? Well... He supposed there was only one way to find out.

He chuckled as Maia asked if it'd change the name if it were filled with Blackthorns now. I don't know. Blackthorn Caldera sounds a little funny. Maybe one day he would've wanted something like that, but now he didn't mind very much. He'd probably not refer to it by its full name very much, anyway; it would just be "the Caldera" or "Brecheliant", much like it was now with the Fen.

We should make sure the children are okay with it, Eljay said next, turning more serious. When I had to leave the Caldera when I was younger, I really hated it. I just... Want to make sure they understand why we need to go, and maybe tell them some good things about the Caldera, so it isn't a scary new place for them. Hopefully they would understand that this was what needed to happen to escape the hunger that the Fen'd plunged the pack into.