Bramblepoint Southstar.

She couldn’t help but laugh a little at the myriad of emotions that drifted across Ceridwen’s face, culminating in an expression of tentatively bewildered optimism. Towhee supposed that’s sort of how she’d felt when she’d quit denying she was in labor back in August.

Bushtit, she shared. He’s still pretty young but he’s already quite a globetrotter. I think he really likes meeting new people and making friends. He’s weirdly easygoing, for which Towhee was eternally grateful, particularly in her advanced age. I have no doubt you’ll cross paths with him someday, if you continue traveling the area. Is that the plan?

She knew Dwin led a nomadic lifestyle, though she’d always been able to go home to the caldera. Towhee remembered what they’d agreed upon the last time they’d spoken: home was not really a place, it was the people. In that sense, Ceridwen’s home had merely changed location. Hopefully she could continue dropping in on Eljay, Maia and the rest of them.