DawnEyes and NightStalk were amazingly struck by Recognition one harsh
Whitecold, and it was often joked at being the best warming that season. 
Two turns and some time later, NightGaze was born to DawnEyes and
NightStalk on a Newgreen night. The Recognized 'couple' slipped apart soon
after she was weaned, with DawnEyes returning to her long-suffering 
lovemate and leaving NightGaze in her father's care.
   NightStalk was ill-prepared to care for a child, let alone a 'she- 
kit'. DawnEyes refused to have anything more to do with the kit, so 
NightGaze never knew her mother. NightStalk did his best with the 
responsibility, treating his daughter as if she were older than her true 
age. He named NightGaze and raised her from her first turn to her 
twentieth, teaching her to hunt, to dry food, and even how to make crude 
throwing slings in case she should ever lose or need a weapon.
   NightGaze's last day with her father is most and best remembered, in 
part for the knife and leather sheath, marked with two tiny bones crossed 
across each other. The other reason was the way his ears perked, seeming 
to hear and listen to some distant call. She doesn't know where her father
is now, only that Recognition apparently sent him to another's furs, far
away from the tribe he knew.
   Some sixty or seventy turns old, she no longer truly misses her father.
She does often wonder about the lands he's seen, and whether he ever found
the source of that call. NightStalk still runs with the ShadowWalkers 
through his daughter, his near-feline curiosity and occaisional quiet 
spells her most obvious inherited traits.