Redhawk Caldera know your roots

Nightjar made an observation, to which Fox smiled. "Because we don't live where I grew up," she explained simply. "Dud's family gave everybody last names, so we decided to follow that tradition. We wanted our traditions to be a mix of both mine and his." Fox had been rather resistant to the idea of changing her ways, but she'd eventually come around and given Peregrine some leeway. It was still hard, at times, to remember that having complete control wasn't really fair to him. Not that she'd even been hung-up on being fair to everybody in the world.

Dhole chimed in next, asking about middle names. Specifically Raven's. Fox couldn't actually recall if she'd told Raven about her middle name or not, but she figured it wouldn't hurt to repeat herself if she had. "Raven's middle name comes from a dear friend of mine that died before you were born," Fox replied. Death was nothing new to any of the children, and Fox saw no reason to hide such things from them. "His name was Haunter, but I chopped the name half-off because 'Raven Haunter' was a bit of a mouthful." Add in the hyphenated last name, and it was a real tongue-twister.

"I don't know as much about Dud's family, but I do know that one of his brothers is very mean, and most of his family is named after birds. The mean brother kicked him out for some reason, and that's why Dud ended up here, with me." That was a very, very short version of the story, but considering Fox didn't know a lot of the details, it would have to do.