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Eljay felt his cheeks flush and he wasn't really sure what to say or do when Wildfire pressed him on the matter and asked him if it was about Raven's pups or just in general. "Oh, uhm, well," he mumbled awkwardly while he tried to figure out what to say. Never good at lying, Eljay ended up confessing: "Both, I -- I guess. I mean, I'd -- think of being a father sometimes." He hadn't said it out loud like that before, and Eljay felt incredibly stupid saying it out loud like that. It sounded like he was shouting the most bizarre idea anyone had ever come up with off the rooftops. Eljay looked away, unable to bear seeing how Wildfire would respond -- if she'd laugh, stare, or think him a weirdo -- while his breath came out in short panicky huffs.