Duck Lake can't remember when it started

The girl's eyes widen at eighteen, (all at once? she knows that Khoe's birthing was messy affair, and she had had only three) and she wonders just how far her family stretches. Suddenly, it seems so much bigger than simply Da, Sunny, her siblings and Sunspot, and she wonders what her cousins must be like. For a while, she is content to speak with the man, telling him of her father and her siblings, and learning of him in return. Time catches up to her soon, however, and they part sometime in the afternoon, the girl eager to make the final leg of her journey, head abuzz with the sudden knowledge that her family stretches larger than she thought possible.