Sun Mote Copse From utility animal to life partner

This is the meaning of girl's name Mirka - "admirable; or peace, world; or female ruler; or ocean". I first read the name in an article about Roger Federer. His wife's Mirka.

"A dying cougar is an understatement," Wraen murmured, clearly amused by the subtle joke. Which made her wonder, if Meerkat had too inherited Towhee's deafness and they were going to have another signing-singing wolf in the pack. She wondered about asking this now, but then decided against it. Though Regent had been born deaf and had no perception of, what sound meant, it did not mean that she would wish her daughter to have the same fate. And, how could you tell it in a newborn anyway?

"Mirka," Wraen corrected. "Sure, lead the way!" 

We can fade out here and start a new one.