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"Me too, Sunny-boy," Day admitted. His ears flickered as Sunny added Easthollow to his name. Grayday himself had been born without a surname. In his culture, pups were only given one name at birth, and most used the pack's name as an identifier when introducing themselves to strangers. Sometimes honorifics were added as well, after acts of extreme valor or stupidity, but Day hadn't stayed with his father's pack long enough to gain one of those. So he'd always been Grayday of Sameth-by-the-River, and then Grayday of Silvertip Mountain and now Grayday of Easthollow. 

At Sunny's prompting, Day finally decided to drop the 'of'. "Names are only names," Day said with a shrug. "You've always just been 'Sunny' to me, just like I've only ever been 'Grayday' to my dad, and to you and Steady and Aunt Kryp. You two can call yourselves anything you want, but your mother left, and those are her names. Not anything to do with us." He didn't say that Ansbjorn had been the man that was almost their father. There were some things that his kids just didn't need to know.

Sunny, however, seemed to be done listening. Day chuckled and whipped his tail away, hoping to catch the boy off balance. Readily, he dropped their current subject. It wasn't anything the kids needed to worry about. When they were older, and if it was still on their minds, maybe they could revisit the discussion.