Sun Mote Copse of a leather seat between your legs

His outburst caused a sharp frown to shoot across her face. He seemed to feel bad about it almost instantly, so she didn't chastise him for it. She remained quiet as he continued in a much smaller voice, something that shocked her almost as completely as his question about being a disappointment. Of all the kids she had, both her own and dibsed, Towhee was the absolute last one she would ever have expected to leave the Redhawks.

It took her a moment to find words again. "Do you know where they're going?" she asked, not finding in her any reason to try and defend their choice of the Plateau. It had been the right one at the time. Actually, it had felt like the only one given how desperate and afraid they'd felt, and how heartbroken she'd personally been over their abandonment of the Caldera. She'd always been anxious about having newborns there, but it wasn't until a solution presented itself in the Copse that she'd decided it was enough to make her act.