Redhawk Caldera Streets lined with cottages and cabins

Eljay was very calm through it all. He'd never been particularly susceptible to heat - at least not as much as it seemed to affect others at times - and it gave him a strange calmth. Last year he'd been a bit nervous because it was the first time, but this year he knew what was coming. Better yet, Maia herself did not seem as nervous this time as she was last year. It made Eljay feel confident in a way; to know what was coming, to know that Maia felt good about it too, and best of all, to have someone like Maia who wanted this, with him. To be with him, to have a family.

She accepted and he felt a warm glow in his face when she moved her shoulder against his and suggested North. He nodded. Yeah. I hear it's beautiful this time of year. Eljay smiled knowingly at Maia and pressed his shoulder a bit more firmly against hers before he broke contact and slowly started heading away from their family's hangout.