Redsand Canyon I can change a tire on the side of a road

What did she want?

She wanted her parents. That was Epoch’s only appeal; she didn’t care about the rest, and from what she’d heard of the leader, she wasn’t even sure they’d get along.

From the star of planning the Emberwood claim, all she had wanted to do was build a home Killdeer would’ve been proud to come back to. The failure had been her breakup, but the real mark of it for her had been that he’d chosen Mereo instead. She didn’t know what trying again would even look like.

All she wanted was to feel like she fucking mattered, for once, to someone who wasn’t obligated to love her. No pack could guarantee her that.

What would the pack be like, if we were to start one? How would you want it to look? The idea was exhausting, but she wouldn’t write it off. Not if he was willing to follow through on it. Building a pack where her son could lead would make it just worthwhile enough to merit consideration… even if she refused to get her hopes too high.