Blacktail Deer Plateau It's with sadness I greet the day

Her words brought a spark of amusement when he imagined Blue telling Perry that he was being an idiot. He could see and hear it clearly, she had likely even used that exact wording. She and Perry were so opposite, it made him wonder (as he had often done) how their friendship had started. "I am glad, though I hope that won't be necessary. By the time your pups are old enough to travel that far I hope everything is calmed down enough that Peregrine could have already come to see them here. Wishful thinking I guess." As he had told Peregrine, he did not want the ban to last forever. Just long enough to let some wounds heal.

Dante himself no longer felt any ill will towards Peregrine, or even Fox. Had the two told he and Blue beforehand, given them a heads up and time to transition into leadership, and not left without even a proper farewell to the pack (despite the circumstances, he felt a couple hours of Peregrine's time would have hurt no one), he might have been at least on board with if not elated about their move. He understood completely the needs to start over and change scenes. It was only the misfortune of the situations initial handling that left Dante in charge of picking up the pieces now.