Northstar Vale Some birds mate for life

Something in between, now that was something that Gracious never really put thought into. Everything was complex in its own way, yet other things were completely simplistic, from leaves falling off trees when the seasons changed to when the stars fell from the night sky. She had to think for a moment before answering the boy.

"Maybe that's something you can find out for me," she suggested warmly, "all animals are different from each other, who knows, maybe there's an animal more complex than us." Bears could be intelligent, perhaps even the deer wolves chased and the coyotes wolves fought with. "You just might be surprised with what you'll find."