Phoenix Maplewood Remember When

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Nanook barely spent time near her family anymore. Not that she didn't care. Even through her anger, she loved them, but seeing them only made her remember the void left by Xan and papa and spurred her focus back on them. The only thing that drew her back to the den today was the scent of her mother's trail leading out of the Maplewood. A flurry of emotion stormed within, and her thoughts spun at hyper-speed. Mother hadn't told her where she would be going, but Nanook imagined where she could find the answer.

The den loomed in sight, and Nanook pressed her speed when Desna's fresh scent filled her mouth. Her sister's dark body confirmed her presence, and Nanook only registered the change in her sister's physique with a passing glance. Her body, too, had changed. Forever she'd been a small thing. While Desna still stood a good distance above her, Nanook's own body had lengthened and grown. Yet there was a sharpness to her, a wildness clinging to her wiry limbs that spoke of the flurry within.

Passion burned in her coppery eyes, any blue from her infancy swallowed by fire. "Where'd mother go?" Her mind snapped past all greetings and small talk, and she fixed her sister with intensity in every inch of her body. She knew the answer she wanted, and she willed Desna to say it - that mother had finally listened and was bringing papa and Xan to live with them here.