Redhawk Caldera It is safe to say...

Of all of her kids, if you'd asked Maia when they were younger, Ceridwen would have been the one she'd guessed to run off into the sunset and never look back. Well, Maia didn't expect any of them to never look back. But despite her daughter's frequent trips and explorations, she always seemed to return home to roost, even while the rest of her siblings had flown to other places.

Maia smiled fondly to herself as she passed signs of Dwin's recent passage. She followed it until she reached the sunny glade where her daughter seemed to be catching a nap. Rather than wake her, Maia settled down quietly a short distance away, yawning broadly, but knowing she wouldn't sleep so easily.

Between what happened with Teya, her responsibility to fill the hole that Bronco's loss had left in providing for the pack, and her own growing children, quiet like this was hard to come by. Least of all a moment to share it with her daughter. She could absolutely spare a few moments to enjoy the peaceful warmth.