Moonspear quaking forest

It hit her like a thunderbolt: Seal didn’t know what she meant. Of course she didn’t, she was a little girl! Meerkat laughed at her own idiocy, prompting another brief coughing fit. She brought her foreleg up to her mouth, trying not to cackle at her own obliviousness—she was sick, in her defense—and the conversation to come.

Well, yes, creating children requires a man and a woman, Meerkat began, launching into the birds and the bees.

After she went over the biology of it all, they began to get closer to the copse’s center, where Meerkat knew they would find the log. She kept her eyes peeled for it, even as she tried to give Seal most of her attention. Surely her daughter would have questions she would need to field.