Redhawk Caldera the manuscript

while @Chickadee rests, kivaluk takes to learning the caldera. he remembers it in that veiled, hazy way of someone who'd been passing thru the last time he'd been here with her visiting. learning the terrain and it's secrets. more importantly he needed learn the migrating patterns of herds that lingered nearby or within the territory itself.

though, he wonders how much time he'll have to devote himself to that as a father.

a soft battering of nerves takes hold as he is left to face the realization, more closely now that he is alone to his thoughts, that he will be a new father soon. real soon.

he tries to tuck thoughts away and focus on the sights and smells and sounds of the trees and woodland life 'round him. there was no sense worrying about what kind of father he would be: regardless, he would find out.