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"Congratulations on his successes," Mahler added. Meerkat wondered what he meant, though she didn't ask. She would pass it along with everything else. The only important thing was that Wintersbane understood it.

"Meerkat," she replied with a gentle smile, easily forgiving his prior gruffness. "Meerkat Re—um, of Duskfire." Well, that was rather obvious at this point, wasn't it? She felt a little bad, dropping her surname from the introduction, but the yearling reminded herself one of the reasons she was this far north was to make a name for herself.

"It was nice to meet you, Mahler," she said in conclusion.