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"No," came the simple and rather listless answer. Sugar's eyes cut to the woman's face, noting the queasy air about her. That was pretty par for the course, given her condition. Some of the herbs would help settle her stomach, so hopefully she would manage to get it all down the hatch.

"I like the idea of naming children after important figures in one's life," Sugar mused aloud, thinking of Bat's and Tegan's offspring. "Is there anyone you could name them after?" She paused and then said, not without a melancholic note, "If not, you could call them Elwood and Finley. They were the best wolves I ever knew."

Within a moment, her gaze dropped and she suddenly felt her cheeks warm. She realized it was a silly and sentimental thing to have said to Raleska, who didn't know Sugar's late parents at all. So why would she want to call her children after them? "Sorry, that wasn't appropriate," she murmured and lapsed into silence, her thoughts now with her deceased mother and father.