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"Wow. You have more patience than the Motherfather." In Defiance laughed. "Never ever let her go, Forgotten my friend." He stumbled sideways when Forgotten gave him a rough shove of shut up.

"Oh..." Once Forgotten blinked at Midnight Sun in surprise. Well, that was unexpected. The usual answer, and the one he had expected, was an instant no. "Thank you.” He moved to trot politely along behind the glowing doe.

While he didn’t expect her brothers to know anything either, there was always that small flame of hope…

Any Day Now seemed completely unfussed by the tacky Acha's proximity, and spent a moment squinting at her, tilting her head, and looking down at her dogs.

"OH." Thaaat's right, she'd run across her and that little cream doggy back home. Uproarious laughter ensued, and she calmed down enough to point out "Well, you know, the desert is so bereft of food sometimes that it just seems logical that a dog is fair game, you know? Raising them for food and all that. No?" She looked around the crowd with an easy grin, looking for agreement, and found herself looking at another Acha with a frivolous little animal about his neck. Well. "I suppose things have changed here, seeing as you've so many of them now, pink lady." She shrugged. "Truth be told, they look a bit too skinny to be appetising." The transparent one looked especially...lacking.

Any Day Now found her rage incredibly amusing and baffling - does, they could be so complicated! "Calm down lady," she said in a soothing voice, knowing quite well it wouldn't help at all, "what's your deal? You get angry when I say I'd eat one, and you're still angry when I say I won't because they're too skinny - how am I supposed to allow you your simple happiness?" Now raised a hoof, pointing it at the pink Acha. "OK, look, I'll say it straight out: I'm not going to eat your dogs in the swamp now. I won't even think it, I promise." Because they're too skinny.

"Brother!" Midnight Sun squealed as she bounced up to Murkcrow. "I think I've just met your long-lost son!"

"What-" Murkcrow interjected, but she didn't give him much time to object.

"You should have told us you'd had dalliances on the plains back in your wild days! And here we all thought you would never have children at all! We were worried, you know!"

Murkcrow, confused, looked between Sun and the kin that had followed her over.

Murkcrow, now a bit more aware of the situation, frowned at his sister. "I should have known. Sorry," he said, turning to the kiokote, "My big sister does enjoy playing cruel tricks. I don't believe any of our family has ever been to the plains, but if I see anyone like you, I could pass on a message...ah, if I knew your name."

Midnight Sun glared at Murkcrow at the dig at her relative age (she wasn't that much older than he was!), but flounced off without a word, joke played. Too bad that kiokote had been a little smarter than she expected.

“Once Forgotten.” The Kiokote replied, deliberately not looking at the doe as she bounded off. A mistake was easily forgiven, but to be mislead and his search used a joke… well, he would admit it hurt a bit. “If you could keep an eye and ear out, I would be grateful.”

For a moment he wavered, a part of him ready to give up for the day, but he soon rallied with help of his natural fortitude. “We have to continue our search; there are many other kin here today.”