Sun Mote Copse The Art of the Dinner Date

Sugar's lips parted at the Sovereign's answer, which bred even more questions that began to multiply and swarm her young, eager mind. She wasn't one to spout off, though, and turned a few things over in her head before deciding which to ask and in what order.

"What's 'hibernation' mean?" was the first. Once that was defined, perhaps she could parse out the rest a little better. "It doesn't have to do with the shakes?" came the second, which only required a simple "yes" or "no." Sugar saved the most important one for last: "Reborn? If they die, how can they come back?"

Immediately, her mind went to the likes of Wildfire (whom she hadn't known) and Colt (whom she had). Sugar had so little frame of reference at her age, having not yet borne witness to all the changing of seasons, but this concept opened a whole can of worms in her mind. She had understood death as an irrevocable, permanent state but, according to Wraen, the trees could come back from the dead. Could the same go for wolves?