Sun Mote Copse i'm the pretender, i'm not what i'm supposed to be

She didn't go very far or fast, digging her heels into the ground and whirling to face Arcturus only to discover he'd more or less sidelined. Meerkat paused, craning her neck, wriggling her nose and pricking her one working ear as she hard his distant, "Oooh!" He appeared to be hunched over a pile of sticks, which was of course intriguing to the youngster.

Meerkat scuttled toward him, immediately thrusting her stubby snout toward the broken sapling. -"WHASSAT?"- she queried, eagerly peering back and forth between the stick and Arcturus's face. Before he could answer, she astutely observed, -"IT'S BROKE!"-