Blacktail Deer Plateau A little lair for a very small bear

Something about Sun Spark's story gave Peregrine a feeling akin to déjà vu. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, though. "Sorry to hear about your wife. I hope the plateau makes for a nice retirement home," he said with a lopsided smile, though the sentiment was quite genuine.

Kaihra's and Finley's tales were somewhat similar in the sense that they'd both left home for greener pastures. Peregrine wondered if Kaihra had been close to her brothers, the way he'd once been inseparable from his three litter mates, particularly Osprey. He fleetingly wondered when he would see his sister again, though he brushed the thought aside for the moment.

The two she-wolves were busily chewing bear meat and Peregrine gave Sun Spark an inviting glance before rethinking his earlier decision. Now that Kaihra and Finley had begun to tear it apart, it looked a lot less like a young bear and more like, well, a heap of meat. Tentatively, he nosed out a morsel and chewed on it. It was okay.

"So, what made each of you come to the plateau in particular?" he wondered next, swallowing and then lifting a paw to his mouth to scrape a stringy chunk of meat from between his teeth.