Firefly Glen it's been a long dark dirty road

Katmai, who had settled on the rock, now surged to his paws at the sound of Kinusi's voice.

"I walk down the road and I'm alone again but
You're the dream and I never woke
I walk down the road and I'm alone again but
You will be the voice in my throat!"

Katmai sang back, just shortly, because she was already almost upon them. His heart soared at the sight of her, and he hopped down from the rock and fell immediately into a happy bow.

"It's been too long, my friend!" he proclaimed, though it had been less than a day. He spun in a tight little circle to work off some of his zoomies, and also to get a look at Leonore before his eyes were drawn almost magnetically back to Kinusi.

"This is Leonore, of Swiftcurrent Creek," he said to her, and to Leonore: "And this is Kinusi, of Moonspear — though we travel together, now."

Leonore knew this, of course. Katmai could not help saying it again, all too pleased by the fact.