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They stood and stared at one another for a few beats, caught entirely by surprise. Delight quickly eclipsed that sentiment for the elder Towhee, who hastened to meet her lookalike in the middle, a huff of disbelieving laughter escaping her at Jr’s exclamatory signing.

-“Hey! It’s good to see you, kiddo! It’s been way too fucking long,”- Towhee Sr said, nuzzling her youngest, who’d really filled out and reached her adult proportions since their last visit. -“I was told you went on some kind of mission…”-

She wanted to know what Towhee Jr had been doing all this time, though it was secondary to the simple joy of this unexpected reunion. The elder Redhawk moved back a few feet to give them both room to sign, much as she wanted to cling to the young she-wolf. Her orange eyes cut admiringly to the hawk adorning Jr’s back, eyebrows raising with all her unspoken questions.