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Her ears tilted back a bit awkwardly when he rejected her use of a nickname. Oh. Okay. Glad I asked... It made her wonder if Issorartuyok minded. She felt uncomfortably warm and shifted her weight, trying to overcome her sudden sense of discomfiture.

"Yes, my brother is fine," the yearling reported, motioning for him to fall into step as she led the way toward a cache. "I know he has plenty of prior experience and I absolutely believe he'll do great." She wondered if Tuuluuwaq could detect her fondness for his brother. "But he's only been a leader here for a few weeks. The previous leader was hurt recently, so he and Lane stepped up."

Her brown gaze drifted sideways, wondering if he knew that much already, before facing forward again. "There's a cache through the trees up here in... Bosk Iana!" Abruptly remembering the name she couldn't quite recall during her tour with Njord a while back, it came out rather exclamatory. "Sorry, I was blanking on its name the other day and it just came to me," Meerkat offered as explanation.