Northstar Vale too serious for a song

The red man came; if Killdeer was familiar with him, it was tangentially. His attention was only on Maxim, and once permission had been granted to go, and the man allowed him ahead, he steadied himself and prepared for another breakneck pace over the mountains.

Well, maybe slower now, with company.

Thank you, he said to Arsenio, fervently. He nodded back to Maxim and gestured forward with his tail. The two would head quick as they could to Towhee and Jack, to rendezvous with them in a grand outpouring of grief and family.

Killer almost felt as if he did not belong. But he would stay.