Moonspear know that the shine inside will always keep you strong

Whether or not the reunion would be happy would remain a discovery for another day. After issuing a message to Kinusi that went unanswered for the moment, Tiuttuk took that as her cue to proceed without her. She frowned lightly, if only because she would’ve liked to see her for herself, but nodded. All of them would surely rendezvous at some point.

Yes, she answered Katmai’s question as she led him in the direction of the mountain’s scar, caused by some preternatural storm before her birth. I was born here and I’ve never— Well, she had left, she reminded herself, the thought accompanied by an unpleasant twist in her gut. I never planned to leave. But then the village faded away.

She was pretty sure Moontide had suffered a similar fate. Her eyes tracked sideways to catch on Katmai’s for a moment. Before voicing her question, her gaze then panned further up the mount, where even from a distance, one could see the great gouges in the mountainside. It looked as though a gigantic puma had swiped its claws through the rockery.

It’s gone too, right? she asked quietly, yellow eyes once more returning to his face. I’m glad Moonglow still stands, she murmured, then jolted a little when she realized it very well could’ve fallen sometime during her memory lapse.

The realization struck her like a physical blow, sending a sharp pain through her temple. Pie halted, grimacing at the ground. She bit back the urge to grunt, not really wanting to call attention to her malady. Katmai seemed nice—and he was family, in a roundabout way—but Tiuttuk didn’t really want to talk about what had happened to her, even indirectly. It made her feel much too strange.