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She should've been happy about how quickly they had raised a village around Kukutux. Meerkat was happy for her, Sialuk and the rest. But knowing she did not plan to stay prevented her from feeling truly a part of things. She kept to the spine's outer fringes, mostly to keep an eye out for Bronco or other fireflies, but also because that's where she felt she belonged.

Today, her paws grew restless and she ventured north. She didn't pay much attention to her surroundings, lost deep in thought. At some point, she snapped to attention with a sharp intake of breath, looking around in slight bewilderment as if wondering where she was and how she'd gotten here. And who was that?

Her honeyed gaze stuck to a slightly larger she-wolf with the loveliest gray marbling in her coat. From here, she couldn't quite figure out if the stranger's eyes were light green or maybe yellow. Meerkat blinked her own several times and ventured toward her with a quiet, "Hello."