Swiftcurrent Creek Pin Pricks

She choked on her words when her silverling daughter spoke to her, using not the name that had been given to at her own birth, but the name she had inherited by giving birth. Maman. She pulled the little girl close to her chest and rocked her in her limbs, nuzzling her muzzle into the pup's velveteen fur. 

Forever and always, She said. 

And she began to understand her own mother just a little bit more.