Redsand Canyon Cut slope.

He still wasn't sure how he felt about the changes. He supposed it was good, to relax a little. Then again, he'd liked the structure; Mereo and Germanicus had molded him from boy to man. Well, kind of man. He still felt a lot like a boy many times.

Especially when Towhee mentioned "spanking" and "kinky." Killdeer grimaced.

I'd be down for a visit to Epoch, he chimed in, hastily swerving the subject away from his mother and her new husband. How is it there, Gramma?

Close as it was, he hadn't even snuck a passing glance while hunting or on patrol. He still wasn't sure how to feel that Towhee had just left them like that, though of course it was good she visited now.