Cedar Sweep we’ll find one another in that big somewhere out there

Auburn had had to find ways to keep herself occupied in the Sweep. Meerkat came to visit with food, enough to keep her fed, but other than that, she was left alone here. She'd taken to studying the plant and animal life, and spent hours with her nose to the ground, sniffing at the soil, the loam, studying the intricate details of leaves and insects, her ears swiveling on her head at the sound of birdsong in the canopy.

Today, she was so engrossed with a colony of pill bugs that she'd found under a rock that she barely heard Skipjack's approach. Some small sound gave him away, and Auburn spun to face him with a gasp. Then she blew out her breath in a great sigh of relief and flopped down onto the ground. You scared me!