Dawnlark Plains Caught up in a dream

Manipulated back down to the ground, she stayed very, very still. Felt the chill of being under him.

Her own name did not move on her tongue. Her mother? Her mother?! There was clear recognition in the red empty socket on the night pelted man, but he would be met with a sorry reality that was her own. "I have no mother." Oh, Muskrat! No mother, she said, sickened then with memory of every chase in the forest they'd had with one another, and the greatest mountains they'd scaled. She was her mother. 

And it was frightening to know now that there were those out there who had made enemies with the raider, with no raider beside her to protect the ridge's child

Nututikruk knew no other mother. Her heart ached, and she knew not what other answer to give. "That is the truth! I have never known my family." Could he have known the lake queen?