Heron Lake Plateau guiding light

if you have time I'd love a thread @Owen! tags for reference and i figured i'd do some ppc-ing of the ppc-pups!

@Phoebe, @Vasa and @Kite were quite a handful -- Eljay was trying to gather them all to teach them some hunting, but they were all over the place. The four month old pups would get distracted around every corner and the lesson hadn't even started yet. "We have to find your brother first," he explained to them, "You don't want him to miss out on the lesson, right?" Meanwhile, they all complained because they wanted the lesson now and then when that didn't happen they'd all three go their own way, distracted by different things, while Eljay tried herding them together. It was a thing he was used to, having helped raise his younger siblings, but it never got any easier.

For now Eljay's own desires to have children of his own some day were put on the back burner. @Raven and @Quixote needed his help and it was easy enough to forget his own wants in this. So what if he was running late compared to mommy and daddy and Liffey? He'd always been a late bloomer, so maybe his time would come, and if not, then he would just have to do with helping out the other wolves of the pack be parents. At least he got to interact with and help raise the pups this way, and he was happy to feel somewhat useful for one of the first times in his life for these fresh Alphas and parents.

"Owen!" he called out, only to realise that while Vasa and Phoebe had stayed by his side, Kite had run off alone again. ".. Kite? Oh no..." And with a sigh he turned around and started to track Kite's scent trail. Looking for Owen would have to wait for now.