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Her eyes flicked to the dwelling beyond him briefly before returning to the young man’s face. He looked a little stunned, which likely meant Towhee had remembered correctly. He confirmed his identity and she gave herself a mental high-five for her recall.

You probably don’t remember this but we met when you were ye tall, she told him, hovering a paw about two inches off the ground, in Moonspear. You were playmates with my granddaughters, Orca and Seal. Towhee grinned at him, then shook her head and added, No, I mean… I’m just getting the lay of the land and trying to meet the villagers. My brother, Phox, and I are staying here for the winter.

She almost mentioned her search for a messenger, yet Towhee shut her trap and let the boy get a word in edgewise. She tried to remember what little she knew about him. His parents had complicated names, though she couldn’t remember them exactly. She did remember that one of them was one of the two wolves she’d run across during their manhunt a few days ago.

Chakra, maybe? Something like that, Towhee thought to herself.