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Seeing Rue's familiar figure hobbling toward her had an immediate and profound effect on Towhee's spirits. Maybe Rue couldn't manage a skip, but she sure as hell could. She closed the space between them, pausing for only an instant before gingerly throwing her forelegs around the woman's neck. Towhee embraced Ruenna for a solid thirty seconds before releasing her and backing up half a yard so they could actually communicate.

Because they'd enjoyed a close kinship for so many years, Towhee didn't hesitate to confess, -"I don't think I fit in there. It's nothing they did,"- she was hasty to add, -"and nothing I did either, for that matter. I'm grateful that they took me in but... I don't know. Anyway, tell me all about Mereo!"-