Blackfeather Woods bloom, gloom & doom

Her approach had been noticed long before her delicate voice reached Damien's ears. Her scent was by then stored within Damien's memory, and despite her rapid growth she was easily recognizable from her siblings. The light shading around her eyes and the speckles all over her body had always picked up Damien's attention. Eyes of moon silver looked up as his tail offered a friendly wag, and the femur between his paws got a short rest as Damien attended the star-kissed spiderling.

"I can't speak Inuttut," he informed the girl, recognizing the sound of it as Kove's mother tongue. "I know you can understand me, Astrid," he added then, figuring that Nemesis would have taught them the common tongue since she did not talk Inuttut herself.