Excitement was infectious in the world of Yakone - the cream girl's interest in Yakone was reflected back ten fold. Every movement was noted, each glance acknowledged with a cheerful wave of her tail or toothy grin of joy. She'd not met a wolf like Banner before - sure, her family and even she held white within their pelts but it was... limited. The strangest she had come across had been one like her own - red and copper - yet marred by a long, thick band of black and grey over his spine. He had been honoured in her pack but he left soon after - he called himself a wanderer. She guessed that was what she was now? Maybe Banner was one too. Maybe they could be wanders together!

As Banner starred into the water, so did Yakone, from time to time pawing at it absently - she liked the feel of it running through the thin fur over her paws, the way her blunt nails dragged through it. If she put her head close enough, she could still heal the faint rubbling of the occasional tumbling stone. She'd almost forgotten she had spoken and was taken off guard by the girl's voice - wide eyed and tall eared, she jerked her head up to meet Banner's gaze with a slowly tilted skull. Mountains - fire raining. She had not seen it? Yakone's brow furrowed slightly before smoothing out into an almost goofy grin as she nodded ecstatically.

She too gazed about the world, noticing the incline in the distance - she had never noticed it, but she did not understand (not truly) the word crater. She did not know of the great mountains and canyons that had once covered the land, but she did know many had fled and many had returned - the strange wanderer had mentioned the land Moladion. Her mouth fell into a soft 'o' at her realisation and awe. She figured a star had fallen and with it a great hole had formed - a true hole, too, not just the holes in their souls (as her Mother had said). She was named for the bad - but for new life, too.

"I did see! It was my first winter and spring," she began, wiggling half way through her sentence in joy of telling her story, "watching Mother Moon, we were, for a new star had been born. But it grew so big and so far away, the sky was red. Mother said the star had fallen - I had to find it."

She paused for a moment, once more frowning though she became suddenly more forlorn. Glancing down to her paws for a moment, she once more dragged it through the water before looking up to Banner, concern plastered across her face.

"Help me find where the star went, yes?" she questioned, head tilting from left to right, "What the star did?"

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