Heron Lake Plateau home is where your heart is

Eljay had heard of Wiffle's return to the Redhawk pack, but he hadn't actually seen her again. He felt all giddy and fuzzy inside as he searched the plateau that day. Things had been busy enough the past days, since Wildfire'd joined -- or maybe he'd simply been avoiding this moment, because in his experience, reunions weren't always as good as you had pictured and rewinded them in your head each of the hundred times -- but Eljay had gotten off duty, leaving the pups in Raven's care after giving them a hunting lesson (or trying, at least).

He searched around the rendezvous site for any trace of @Wildfire, hoping she was close by. It felt forever that he had last seen her when he'd been a part of Drageda. As he recounted what had happened then, Eljay stopped in his tracks and swallowed thickly. Would she be angry that he had never told Drageda what'd happened? That he'd never returned? Suddenly the fuzzy feeling in his stomach turned upside down and Eljay felt the urge to avoid this search and the reunion with Wiffle again.