Cricket Creek Bog where the river leads me

He liked what he heard.  It wasn't that Colt minded killing when necessary - he'd done it before and would do it again.  He just didn't have the taste for blood that the rest of the Redhawk clan seemed to have.  Maybe it was because Blackthorns were born roamers.  They understood desperation and the difference betweeen that and enmity.  Not that he thought it in those exact words.

He let Eljay answer first.  His nephew seemed to be considering long and hard, which surprised him considering how excited he'd been when telling him about it earlier.  Colt hoped he wouldn't get cold feet and regret it later (though if he did he could always come then, he supposed).  Fortunately, the answer when it came was yes.

Colt figured he might have stuck around regardless at this point, at least until spring.  He still wasn't sure how long term this would be, but he was down to hunker down for the season.  Sounds about right to me too.  I'm in.