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Junior listened raptly as the medic spoke, corroborating the correlation between mates and puppies, just like Kaskara had described. A thousand questions sprung up in her brain but she held off until Aunt Willow finished speaking. Even then, she took a moment or two to gather her thoughts and think of how to phrase her next round of inquiries.

"But," she started slowly, "what if you don't want to have babies? Can you still be mates with someone?" She was picturing Dante. Junior certainly didn't want kids—she was a kid herself—but everything else her aunt had described fit the definition of a mate. When she looked at him, her heart definitely fluttered. He made her happy and she definitely wanted to be around him as much as possible.

"And where do babies come from, anyway?" she tacked on somewhat absently, unaware of what a loaded question it was. "And does dad really want more of them?" she added, frowning thoughtfully as she suddenly framed the conversation around Peregrine and Fox rather than herself and Dante.