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His mate answered him, though she didn't seem to have an explanation. She shared in his curiosity, idle as his was. Peregrine nodded when she proposed they check it out. He'd enjoyed climbing the mountain the previous day. He felt so much more content at higher, rockier altitudes. He was beginning to realize that, if they did relocate, a mountain or something like it would be the only suitable landscape for him... which meant that this peculiar peak ahead of them might be in the running.

They passed through a dense forest which continued up and onto the squat mountain. In fact, they didn't breach the tree line until they were halfway up the slope. Although the trees thinned, the ground remained springy with moss and grass. When Peregrine looked upward, he realized that the thick greenery extended all the way to the mount's lip. And suddenly he had a feeling that something unexpected lay above and beyond that rim.

Peregrine wasn't wrong. When he hoisted himself up onto the ridge, he found himself staring down at a glassy blue lake. Across the way, the jagged, displaced peak made up the far wall of the caldera. Another piece of it appeared to just out of the water, with a final and third sliver of land plopped right in the lake's center. When his eyes clapped on this tiny islet, Peregrine caught himself thinking, I wanna live there!

When he lifted his eyes slightly, he saw that the land on the other side of the crater did not immediately slope back downward to its other side. It plateaued, sloping very gradually downward. This broad shelf was teeming with grass and trees. Although it was not quite as level as Blacktail Deer Plateau, it definitely made his mind wander back home for a moment.

He stared and stared and stared before his dusky jade gaze found its way back to the faces of his mate and lover. Peregrine didn't say anything and he certainly wasn't about to make any impulsive decisions; that was more up his wife's alley. Still, the look on his face was easy to read: if they were going to leave the plateau for anywhere, this place had not only joined the running but leaped straight for the top of the list.