Silverlight Terrace snow thunder

yes.

yes.

she was his echo and he hers in this, but firegirl did not allow owlbrother to urge her along.

not loyalty, no sense of it stopped her now.

only pragmatism. if they did not break cleanly from moonglow, hunters would follow as they had for lynx sister.

her brow narrowed; she stepped away from tautukpik and lifted her chin.

she needed him to go back with her, to go back once more. the winterstorm would not follow where scheming grandmother sanctioned their move.

and they did not need to say where they went, only that tautukpik explain clearly that they together would leave the village.