Bearclaw Valley You cannot live with a paw in each world.

What a delightfully unusual culture Snowskip came from!

Aventus tried to think if Ursus did anything similar. Merrick had named he and his sister, but he wasn’t really aware of that. He recalled the nickname Merrick had referred to them by when they first moved to the meadow, and wondered if that was what Snowskip meant. It didn’t sound quite like her names, but wasn’t it sort of the same thing? He wondered what her actual name was, and felt weirdly slighted that she'd given him an alias, even though he'd done exactly the same thing.

Your name is Brat, he declared, summoning that name Merrick had called him and Avicus once. It went right over his head that only leaders could grant warrior names.