@Candle had been attacked. @Sari had fallen in a summer's end illness. Candle had taken to guide those who needed it in S'ari's wake. Rizura had been distant, perhaps off on trade routes. The beautiful little @Meridian leaving a rosy quartz in the sand as remembrance of her as her path took her elsewhere. Many things had recently occurred. Many which were hard to bare. 

K'oa, meanwhile, worked diligently for her people. The family would work together as a unit, as had they always. She would hunt with @Kusuma often. She would forage for healing herbs to deliver to Candle to use on her cousin. She would ward off those that did not share their coyote blood along side @Zoug. She was a busy woman. A tired woman, but there was pride and gratification in her work. 

There would be no changes in the eyes of K'oa. Candle was not leader here. There were no leaders in Tribe. They were all equal. Yet, it is known there is a bond which has formed deep between Candle and S'ari and for this, K'oa finds comfort in the thought that Candle would do well for them. She smiles with a hopefulness as she takes a sparing moment to lay. Her belly to the warm sand. Her pale eyes fixed on the setting sun.