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She felt a cold dread thread through her at the thought of winter. The last one (her first and only) had been rather bleak. Meerkat was not looking forward to the next. But even as her eyes dropped earthward again to land on Issorartuyok's face, some voice in the back of her reminded her that she would be two at the end of winter. She could expect her first season, though what Meerkat planned to do about it remained to be seen.

The logistical hurdles alone were daunting, so she did her best to push that thought out of her mind as she focused on the conversation. "I'd be happy to introduce you. You should know them, one way or another, since we're all family now. Right?" Meerkat smiled brightly as the geese's silhouettes receded into the distant skies. "I'd love you to teach with me. I think that would be more beneficial to them, anyway," she added, thinking of their game of Whispers with a twitch of her lips. A lot could get lost when it came secondhand.

After a few beats of companionable silence, Meerkat said, "That said, I won't say no to some lessons of my own. It'd make my mom proud." Her tail swished. "She's a master mercenary, you know," she shared with a light laugh which trailed off into a hum, brown eyes gone soft. She missed Towhee. Maybe she would feel up to visiting her before the winter came. Heck, maybe Issorartuyok would like to go with her...