Moonspear it's real quiet here

She supposed her fate wasn’t just in Mother Nature’s hands but Katmai’s and Kinusi’s too. But there was no need to fear the two of them prohibiting her from seeing it through, should biology favor her. She swallowed thickly at his words, offered up so easily. The sentiment meant much to her.

Oh? was all she could think to say when Katmai mentioned a cousin.

Despite her own lighthearted remark a moment ago, Pie felt a queer resistance to the inference of a potential match. She didn’t know the first thing about this cousin, hadn’t known he’d existed until just now! But it was more than that. Tiuttuk’s brow furrowed as she tried to puzzle out her own inexplicable feelings on the matter.

She caught herself and carefully schooled her expression, putting on a politely interested one instead. It wouldn’t hurt to hear more about Katmai’s cousin, she told herself, when suddenly that voice in the back of her head—maybe the headache, personified—whispered nonsensically, Too bad he’s not a girl.