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Towhee didn’t miss it when Meerkat looked her way after Njord and Fennec spoke. She returned her daughter’s gaze, sensing that she wanted to hear from her before speaking up herself. Towhee could do that.

-“I know you’re unhappy about your friends leaving,”- Towhee said, speaking directly to Meerkat before sweeping her eyes over the entire group, -“but I never liked them being there in the first place. Now those neighbors can just pass through the sweep and not come so close to the borders. I think it’s for the best, honestly. I can’t speak to diplomacy very well but I don’t think they’re close enough to cause problems. I think it’s a nonissue.”-

She shrugged her whitened shoulders, recapturing Meerkat’s gaze. Was that what her daughter wanted to hear? She couldn’t be sure, yet Towhee had spoken frankly, just as she always did.