Moonspear The change

I do not know that place. I am Sialuk Ostrega, daughter of Jarilo and Kukutux. How did you come to be here? Sialuk asked. She wondered if perhaps she had been brought here to meet one of her cousins—or perhaps her own brother—just as she had been brought to the plateau to meet Huojin. Sialuk smiled thinking of him. He was a polite boy.

But this girl had said Nova Peak was her home, which implied that was no longer the case. Sialuk did not think a mother and father would leave their children here without them. The girl was around Sialuk's age, and she wouldn't have been allowed to go live somewhere else without her mother and father. Nor would she want to.