Moonspear Summertime won't last long.

At her age, five years was simply incomprehensible. She only knew that it was a long time, perhaps even longer than her parents or Hydra had been alive. The Alpha female inferred as much, a comment which begged half a dozen other questions. Meerkat waited for her to finish, her mind whirring even as she slowly began to move again, intending to walk the breadth of The Pale to get the gist of its size before focusing her investigation.

In the meantime, she wondered, -"Were you born here? Did my mom ever live here?"- But no, that couldn't be right. Meerkat vaguely mentioned some stories about Heron Lake Plateau and, even further back, a place called Redhawk Caldera, the source of the family's surname, at least in part. -"How did you and my mom meet? Do you know my dad and Neema too?"-

The more she thought about it, the more questions she wanted to ask. Was Hydra a Redhawk-Blackthorn too? How was she actually related to Meerkat's mother? Was Hydra part of a mated pair, like Phox and Niamh, or was she a single mother, like Towhee? There was so much yet to learn, not just about the landscape of Moonspear, but about its many inhabitants, past and present.