Moonspear say a few words to the winds

Alya wagged her tail, creeping toward her mother and rolling onto her back to show that she was willing to cooperate. Looking up with her baby blue eyes, Alya listened to the rest of her mother's speech, her whole body wiggling with pleasure as all her dreams began to come true. I can go, I can go! she thought, almost missing some important bits of Amakaze's words.

"The big black place," she responded at once, hopping to her paws and peering through the trees for the scorched stretch of earth that she could sometimes see in the distance. She was talking, of course, about the Heartwood, but the girl had no knowledge of its name or properties. "I can see it from higher up," she explained, still looking in the direction she knew it to be in.