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He met her question with a question of his own, which momentarily stumped the girl. Furrowing her brow at him, she eventually replied, "Uncle Elwood, Aunt Finley and Raven told me." And the Alphas' word was law; everyone knew that. "They even showed me the den," she continued, blinking off in that general direction for a beat before redirecting her gaze back to Birk. "My mom died when she gave birth to me and my brothers and sisters. And a couple of them died too."

She didn't really know any of the gory details, she just knew that this had been explained to her a handful of times. "Where's your parents and family?" Towhee pressed, unaware that she had shoehorned her own way into an actual conversation with someone outside of her beloved innermost circle.