Moonspear Madness fills my heart and soul

She had almost forgotten that Towhee had floated the idea of coming to visit this upcoming new moon. Meerkat glanced skyward as if to check on the moon, catching and chuckling at herself. There was no sign of it, which had a lot less to do with its current phase than the fact that it was the middle of the day.

"Yeah! I can't wait to tell her about this," Meerkat gushed. "And I'm kinda glad we're not going there this time around. I feel like it would make my homesickness worse." Seeing her mother (and possibly other members of the family too) would still affect her, though not as much as a brief foray to Sun Mote Copse.

"And while I'm making confessions," she said after a breath and a pause, "I'm going to miss our den, if we do decide to go. And the other places around Moonspear too. But I won't miss all the climbing. And it'd be nice to live somewhere with lots of trees again, especially this time of year."