Broken Antler Fen Go ahead, make my day

When he said the words back to back like that, the assonance stood out and it clicked in her head. "Oh!" She nodded, then scrunched her smudged nose and actually smiled slightly. What a strange way to remember it! Then again, Wildfire had to admit it would definitely stick in her head forevermore.

Kero tested her comprehension by posing another question. "Um, east?" she guessed, thinking back on what he'd said just moments ago. As for his second question, she stared at him a bit blankly with another, "Um..." She glanced over her little red shoulder again, trying to remember anything about the sunrise today or any other day, for that matter.

Turning to face him, Wildfire thought out loud. "The rendezvous site's kinda shady in the morning," she said slowly. She felt the cogs in her mind grinding away, as she began to grasp the concept. "But in the evening," she continued, speaking faster now, "we can see the sunset over Lake Rodney." As she mentioned the lake by name, she turned to glance at it. It lined up nearly perfectly with the caldera from here.

Wildfire remembered a time when she had struggled to take a poop. Her mother had called it consternation or something like that. Well, she felt the same way right now, only mentally. Her brow furrowed as she tried to connect the dots, though she couldn't quite manage it. Her yellow eyes ended up lingering a bit helplessly (but thirstily—for knowledge, that is) upon Kero's face.