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Carolina stiffened as if she'd been electrocuted when her Big Sister let on that she had a Secret. Carolina loved secrets, and a new game of hers was making them up to keep for herself. To hear one from her Big Sister, however, was a special privilege. Even if it would soon be shared with the others.

She listened carefully, still as a statue while these important words were imparted on her. Apparently, there was something called a village over on some distant mountain, and that was where her Big Sister (BIG SISTER!!!) lived. Not only that, but she was keeping one of her Uncles there, and ANOTHER BIG SISTER.

Clearly, Dawnspear was a place for sisters. Caro's lips parted again as she began to wonder if her Big Sister was there to take her away to the sister mountain.

"Lyric can come," she said in a rush, relieved when Treepie brought the boy up himself. She was equally pleased about the inclusion of the new babies, which were her great-something-or-others, like Gigi was her great-something. "They'll be too small," she said sagely.

The adults, wary of her violent playstyle, had hammered this idea into her mind. The babies would be too small for most things for quite some time, and Caro was to be very careful around them. Certainly, they were not to be picked up and carried, not otherwise removed from their den.