Wheeling Gull Isle If you can’t beat ‘em

Meerkat had come here? It made sense. She was the most capable of those living at the Redhawks now, besides maybe the wolf who had given Towhee children this year. Phox could not even recall his name. There was something funny about that, but no smile reached his lips.

Towhee, my sister and the leader of Redhawk Caldera, knows that I am searching for Niamh and our children. She will understand, as will the rest of my family there. Alyx, my daughter who lives nearby here, knows that I have returned to this island, and I imagine word will eventually get back to the caldera as it always does. He was thankful that he had such a network, and that at least one (if not two?) of his children was nearby. He wondered if Meerkat had gone to see Alyx after stopping here.

Niamh is the world to me, as are our children.

There was a time when he would have put Towhee above Niamh, but even now with Niamh running away... he couldn't bring himself to do that. They were equals to him, and precisely why this whole situation had been so hard on him. Niamh had made him choose, and that had been the straw to break the back of their relationship.