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Mou remained quiet, though Maegi spoke with gratitude and sympathy. In fact, she suggested exactly what he had proposed to Towhee: that they all go back to Redhawk Caldera together. Could it work? Could the kids and Mou and Maegi and the rest of the Redhawks really live under one "roof" again? It had felt like a pipe dream, but now it felt like something else: hope.

Peregrine and Vesper are my family, too. You and Mou are family by association at this point, Phox said, still blissfully ignorant of who Mou's connection to his own past. And why would he remember him? It had been years upon years since Phox had seen him, and the two of them had been so very different back then. Children, playing children's games.

Now, Phox was a grandfather.

Mou? Phox asked him directly, What do you think?

Maegi often did all the talking, but this was something bigger, and Phox felt he needed some kind of confirmation from the pups' guardian before he made any more solid plans.