Overture Downs Feel quite clean in this new skin that we have grown.

She obliged him by providing him with her backstory, and he listened intently. There were places where their tales intersected -- they had both been born on the Sunspire, and had even lived together briefly as children (although he didn't really remember that) -- but then her life had taken a series of different turns that led her away from her father's pack and then eventually back to it. Along the way, she had done quite a bit of exploring, both intentionally and unintentionally, and the mention of dragons caused Breccan's ears to perk with curiosity. She concluded by sharing that she had visited each of the neighboring packs, which was impressive to the young Frostfur.

"Wow. So you've done a lot of stuff and been a bunch of places," he mused. He wasn't jealous, exactly, but he found himself thinking of the freedom she had. Of course, it had come with strife -- it sounded like her relationships with her mother and father were somewhat strained -- but she seemed to have control over what she did and where she went. He would return to this thought over the next few weeks, when his own parents unexpectedly uprooted their family; for now, though, he was simply enjoying Ibis's company under the darkening sky.

"So where else do you plan to go exploring?" he asked, basing his question on the fact that she had already covered the territories surrounding Lost Creek Hollow.