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The panther made a wordless sound of joy, stunned at this turn of fortune. She could not, of course, produce Aditya for him right out of her pocket, nor did he think she could point him in the right direction. But he felt his father's presence between them, and he was warmed by the idea that Aditya had shared song and story with Kukutux before.

"I hope so, too," he replied, sobered nearly speechless. The strings of fate played a sweet tune; he felt the mystery of the world settle around him like a warm blanket. When he next looked at moonwoman, it was with a new sense of kinship.

"I think that things will happen as they need to," he told her. "I have been delivered to this place and this time by kind hands; I must believe that these hands hold my father and my sister, too. As for Valiant — " He flashed the woman an impish smile of his own. "He will come. He cannot resist my charm for long."