Heron Lake Plateau Ka-tet.

Ah, the differences in perspective between characters.  

And he was going to say something kind of snarky when Kite popped on in to the scene -- he ditched whatever it was basically immediately at that point.  Not worth it, probably.  They'd avoided too many "A wild pup appears!" type of awkward scenarios thus far, so it made sense for one to happen.  Quixote wasn't exactly sure whether Kite's presence would help or not or how much derailing would occur. To a certain point he was afraid that Kite would maybe swing Raven away from retaking her spot as alpha, but who knew.  He did kind of have a somewhat pessimistic view of life.  Still, he was always happy to see his kids (even if Owen sometimes seemed a bit nuts).  Hey, Kite! was all he got to say before Raven answered her questions.  He was glad she did, he wasn't entirely sure how to go from here.

He floundered a little, I mean, Ray, if you want to just think about it some more... Shrug.  It had been a while already.  What else could he do to convince her, to support her?  I got your back, no matter what.  As if it weren't obvious enough by now already.  It was up to Raven in the end, and he'd just have to put up with the result he didn't want if that's what she chose.  So it goes.