Blacktail Deer Plateau Singing In the Cave

"For a while?" she asked. "Does that mean you found them again?" she asked hopefully, not wanting any wolf's child to go missing. She might have asked him more about his mate, but it wasn't as though he was young with little time on his hands. If he did have children they could be 4 times Pema's age by now. 

She would have asked about his poetry but decided to wait until the tone of their conversation turned to one that saw less somber.