Heron Lake Plateau And the 808 is our drummer.

After a brief visit to the Alpha pair's den, Towhee headed to the rendezvous site where the Blackthorns now headquartered. @Elwood wasn't there, nor were @Cinder or @Tywyll; evidently, their father had taken the boys on a jaunt around the plateau. But that gave the Beta time to sit and talk with @Finley, just the two of them shooting the shit for a while before @Clover and @Fiadh showed up, the former eagerly pressing Towhee to relieve the fight with Screech. When she initially resisted, the yearling playfully called her historian specialty into question, so Towhee relented.

Once the tale was told (not for the first time and probably not for the last, either), Towhee rose and pardoned herself to begin a patrol. As she made her way toward the borders, eyes the color of orpiment rose skyward to scan for any sign of X. She saw him circling over The Roost and unleashed a clipped bark that prompted him to wing in her direction. Happy to see that her friend's flight feathers had fully recovered, she tracked him across the sky even as she arrived at the plateau's base and began to wind dutifully southward in its shadow.