Moonspear Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

He expressed well wishes and Wildfire received them with a smile and wave of her tail. "Thanks, Jace. I don't know if you know him," she added, "but the guy in question is Floki." She shot her scarred companion a glance to see if recognition registered. "He's part of the reason I came to live here," though he wasn't the only one. Wildfire wasn't that capricious.

Aware that she might be asking yet another sensitive question, Wildfire wondered, "You said you fell in love when you were one but you're three now and you don't have a mate." That wasn't really a question, was it? "What happened?" she asked in a soft voice, right before her left foot hooked on a root and sent her pitching forward, her shoulder taking the brunt of it as she fell to the ground.