Moonspear I stared up just to see

"Would you look at that..." Wraen smiled at the revelation that this was yet another offspring of Peregrine. Mom had been right in saying that "little peregrines would be everywhere". He had had a head-start and was three litters ahead of his sister by the time she had had her first. 

"Seems so and, since you are a likeable fellow - I deem you worthy of being my cousin," she replied with another joke, as if she was some sort of royalty, whose respect had to be earned. "So... Gannet," Wraen lied down to be in the same eye-level with the boy. "Tell me about yourself."