Redhawk Caldera On foot I had to cross the solar system.

Fennec loved her mom, but hadn’t been entirely sure about having her there when she and Killdeer reunited. It was a stupid, selfish thought when Towhee had come along specifically to help her get here more easily, but it luckily disappeared the instant her mom broke the subject of Bronco. Fennec wasn’t sure she could have brought it up directly herself.

She didn’t interject, keeping quiet until there was a pause in the conversation or a question obviously addressed to her. She just didn’t know what to say.

Sorry for your loss sounded stiff, detached, as if it wasn’t supposed to be her own loss too. Was it? At what point was it okay for it not to be? Bronco deserved better than that… they’d been friends for years before everything happened. Apparently Fennec just wasn’t a good enough wolf to give it.

She probably should have sorted all of this out before they got here.

Fennec stayed close at Killer’s side, affectionately leaning in, but letting Towhee carry the conversation for the moment.