Heron Lake Plateau have you ever felt the warm embrace

towhee gave him a nudge, which tegan actually returned despite really not wanting to. must've been subconscious, or something. either way, it was returned. he watched as his sister came up upon quixote, mutter a few things with her broken voice, and then officially dip, leaving tegan to stare at quixote rather dejectedly. "i brought bat back to the hollow, came home, stopped at the firebirds because i figured wildfire would wanna know that bat was there for now..." he paused, assuming that quixote also probably knew he'd called kiwi some choice words, "their beta is a real piece of work, by the way, worse than towhee... but, anyway, when i left i found screech... a territory or so over. i had to follow him." 

this was, again, the lie that towhee had taken so smoothly. the truth being that tegan had actually just turned and fled east as far as he could go until he suddenly ran into screech. either way. 

"screech is back at blackfeather, i didn't go into the territory, i just wanted to know where his bitchass was hiding. there might be more wolves there, i told towhee i think they might be reforming," he finished, recapping this all with a little less emotion than he had with towhee. but quixote had less stake in tegan, who was nothing more than some dumbass kid he had to put up with occasionally. too bad tegan thought so much higher or quixote.

with a gently turn upwards of his chin, as if he was trying to make up for the fact that he was a big fuckin pussy, tegan said "didn't mean to leave for so long without letting anyone know where i was. i didn't know how far screech was gonna go, didn't think it'd take so long." he added gently, "sorry for letting you down."