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Cuauhcoatl steps out of his longhouse's passage way quietly after a long pause to watch over his mate, children, and grand children, and the baskets from their surrogate breeding with Sapphire. All of the ones that still lived with them, except for one.

Stretching his wings a bit, he walks over to Zira, one of his adopted daughters, and Kikir one of his adoptive sons, watched him with intelligent green eyes, before the two wolves got up to their feet and trotted along side their father.

Zira was the first to speak, her feathered mane sleeked back and her bat-like wings folded tight against her shaggy sides, "Tahtli?* What is it you wanted to show us?"

Cuauhcoatl smiled softly at his daughter, at ease around the large predators, "Look up into the sky and tell me what you see.."

Kikir squinted up a little, "The Wishing star? You asking for another kid for mom I take it?" The wolf laughed a little, tail wagging a bit, "You'd think you guys would be satisfied for the time being: Not only with Sapphire helping, but Cadence is getting close to popping herself."

Slowing down to a stop with a laugh, Cuauhcoatl knelt down and spread his wings. The two wolves cuddled close, hoping to hear more "Not just the wishing star -- see that star just beside it glowing brighter tonight. The wishing star is looking for lost familiars tonight, to help guide them on their way.to loving homes or long lost family members. Dove and Tomo are guarding the herd tonight, so I get to share this with you two.. As you know, found all four of you on our way back from one of the Traveler Spirit shrines, too young to open your eyes, your den abandoned and torn, and rescued you before the elements could take you." He pointed with one of his upper sets of wings, the feather tips seeming to brush against the stars, "The wishing star was glowing bright, and we had been coming back from leaving an offering.. When the second star seemed to flicker into life and made us stall, trying to figure out is meaning. Because we stalled, we didnt pass you before the predator came, and its light was what lit the way..."

Standing back up, he let it sink in as they continued walking a recently added shrine. Taking the chain and pendant that was dangling from the disks of his necklace, setting it on one of the posts, pausing to pray silently before continuing, "So, in remembrance, Im putting an offering out to the wishing star and those it guides home, to help keep those it guides safe in their journeys... And maybe you'll get a little brother or sister who isn't a soquili. Who knows... Maybe a bison? Or a little humming bird. Or another wolf to your pack..."

Kikir nodded, before going up to the post and bowing his head to it,, before plucking off a feather from his mane with a pinch of his paws, sticking it into the soft earth at the base. Zira gasped slightly in understanding, plucking a feather of her own out, having not known what to offer, "May the wishing star watch over those who are lost and wandering, and guide them safely home..."

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"Tahtli! Tahtli!"

Cuauhcoatl woke the next morning to one of his caning offspring bounding excitedly in front of him, bouncing back and forth excitedly like a young pup, tail wagging like crazy. The three of them had slept outside near the shrine, having spent the night talking about spirits and the stars, different beliefs and the ones that seemed to be, for the most part, universal in the kawani lands, watching the stars twinkling journey across the sky, "Kikir? What has you so excited?

He opened his eyes to see both Kikir and Zira before him, an excitedly squirming form in Zira's mouth. He blinked in confusion, not quite awake enough to really make sense of the long flipping tail and tiny underdeveloped wings as Zira put it down, and a long tailed wolfpup she had carried gently over came waddling excitedly up toward Cuauhcoatl, licking his muzzle excitedly as it stood up to do so, paws holding onto his nose.

"She was sleeping where our feathers had been" Zira stated, her voice also showing her excitement, "No pawprints leading up to it, I couldn't scent anything, as if she was put there by something not fully of this world -- the familiar star spirit must have found her orphaned and painted her for her new home like you said the legends state!"

Cuauhcoatl smiled softly at the new pup, ignoring the little scratches from puppy claws "I suppose then we should go tell your mother that we have a new pup in our pack..." He stood up gently, careful not to step on the little pup, and scooped one wing down, nosing the wiggling pup into the bend of his wing to secure her in place against his side -- the walk was a bit much for a pup and it was certainly more comfortable in the curl of muscles and soft feathers than dangling from another's mouth..

*Translation:Tahtli (nahautl) means "Father"