Moonspear Sal din hug og lat den ri og renna.

Towhee didn’t realize she was staring at her feet until Phox’s elbow nudged her rib. Luckily, it wasn’t hard enough to hurt, though she definitely looked up sharply. She would’ve chided him but he gestured at the nearby slope, where Meerkat and an unfamiliar man who must be Njord were approaching their little quartet.

Any worries about whether there was space for them was instantly brushed aside by her daughter’s warm welcome. Towhee let out a long, slow breath. She focused on Meerkat’s lips, eyes tightening at the question about Jack. She shook her head.

Meeting her son-in-law was a decent distraction. Towhee’s spine stiffened a little as she regarded Njord, missing the rest of the introductions. She could see the easy affection between the pair and the way her daughter looked whenever she glanced at him. Her muscles relaxed and the Redhawk matriarch managed a small smile.

-“It’s good to finally meet you, Njord,”- Towhee said. -“Thank you for having us… and not making us go down the laundry list of our skills and assets,”- she quipped in the next breath, exchanging a joking glance with her brother.

She wanted to ask her daughter if she’d picked the rendezvous site like she’d planned and whether they could head there, though Towhee dithered. Her orange gaze moved speculatively back to Njord, noting his scars. She did her best not to stare, though she was admittedly very curious about the man her “baby” had chosen to be her life partner.

-“Meerk, did you pick a rendezvous site? Would you and your dad mind taking the kids there?”- Towhee proposed, then said to Njord, -“I was hoping we could maybe walk together and get to know one another a bit? We can catch up with them later, if that works?”-