The Sentinels If you don't care for it

deirdre waited for a response, and the other wolf introduced herself as 'osprey'. the name was one her father and her mother had recited many a time; old friends were beings that were introduced in stories to date, wolves appreciated and liked and perhaps family, too, except that this was family that she had not seen and so could not, herself, acknowledge and love as she had known for her Alltime.

osprey further went on to speak more, and deirdre understood, but was given pause. not my fend, came her soft and gentle response; the babe had not a bad bone in her body, and so spoke only with the open honesty of the young, not considering that the words might cause the other any semblance of pain. also like any child, deirdre would be quick to desire to make the friend... but her shyness prohibited her from asking the question, and so she only inched toward the mouth of the den so that one eye was revealed to osprey that glittered with curiosity and wonderment. there was a simple way for her to trust the other implicitly at this young age; osprey need only mention her mother, or her father, and she would be won.