Ouroboros Spine putulapâk ≬

If there was one topic that could lift her spirits and get her mind off the disarray of everything else, it was her older brother. Meerkat's lips twitched into a faint smile as she agreed, "He really is, isn't he?" By taking point, he had kept the survivors not just together but on task too. "I'm so proud of him. Can a little sister be proud of her big brother?"

Coaxed by the woman's ministrations, Meerkat dipped forward to rest on her belly, forelegs outstretched. Being here with Kukutux, it was sort of inevitable that she would think of Toad and that day she'd met them both. It seemed like a dream, or another lifetime. She had been so carefree and young then...