Wapun Meadow I need my friend

it occurred to indra, and not for the first time, that children really had a fresh perspective on the world. here was arlette, brightly recounting how if nunataq had to move, she would want it to be somewhere she loved. if adults spoke with such purity from their heart, indra certainly never witnessed it.

arlette's query, however, caused the redleaf to think. was she friends with valette? she didn't think so -- at least, they weren't enemies.. but indra barely knew the matriarch of easthollow, and any connection she had with the grey empress was through xan.

"hmm.. i don't think we are friends. but maybe we could be." indra wasn't opposed to the idea of seeing valette again -- if only to ask if the she-wolf would be terribly inconvenienced by nunataq's occasional visits (or vice versa, though indra wouldn't mind having arlette around in the hollow). "i will have to see her sometime too, to arrange our playdates, of course."