Northstar Vale too serious for a song

Okay. Maybe that had been too dramatic.

Maxim, he repeated, nodding. He was happy for the quick response. Towhee wants you. She's. . .down the mountains, in a forest. Come?

He didn't want to demand it, like, Come! He didn't have that kind of clout.

But he did need the man to follow. Towhee clearly needed it.

His golden eyes swiveled, looking around, before lighting back on Maxim, full of both urgency and sorrow—for he had lost a child, too.