Firefly Glen Here where once was found.

"stay close, @Lucette, @Shadess," chani warned, nudging the younger girl back toward @Sobeille. "stay wid us." she repeated the same for jadou, roux, jean-heron, cherie, elosie, and lafayette, counting: eight children! but they were half-grown and ready to run along the wet sands. astera had accompanied them as well, tall in her stature among she and miette as the yearlings who would become women in the new year.
@Pepper and @Phobos, she had called to them as she set off with all the children and her mother, wondering if they too would join the contingent. maman had stayed behind, her scarlet frame silhouetted against the blackpine forest as so many of them departed.
maman was tired.
val and @Chacal brought up the rear as they approached, having at last cut in from the coastline. chani saw first that there were several children, many of them actually. she exchanged a long look with sobeille, and then, as the glen unfolded, she began eagerly to search for any their age.
mulherin and pearl were sought most ardently, but she found herself watching some young men, unsure of where they came from.
did it matter? her cousin had taught her that it did not, and so she haughtily turned her attention back to her relatives, smirking playfully toward val, handing over the leadership of so many kids to her mother and the aventurine. sobeille! astera! she jerked her head toward them as she continued to trot ahead, seeking out their secluded camp with its private wellspring of bright freshwater.