For a moment Enera worried that the man wouldn't answer her, but finally he agreed and asked about her mama. A smile split her face and her tail began wagging at his acquiescence. She pranced around him. "We sleep over here!" she said, indicating the direction she'd initially been headed. "Follow me!" She danced off, glancing over her shoulder to make sure he was following. "Mama's good," she said. "She tells me bedtime stories. Sometimes I go sleep with Marrah and Caelyn and Aweho, so I don't get a story then, but I like sleeping with Mama on our own too. I like her stories. Do you like bedtime stories?" she babbled, pleased to have an adult audience. She glanced back again. "Mama tells the best stories. And then I tell them to Marrah. Marrah's my best friend."

Marrah was also her sister in her mind, but that was a complicated relationship Enera hadn't quite fully understood yet. They were born around the same time and they spent a lot of time together and they were family. That's all that was important to the Rayvne pup.

Enera's babbling stopped long enough for her to await a reply from the man she was leading back to the den. She gave a little wiggling hop of joy when he said he liked stories; she thought stories were the best! Especially mama's stories. Maybe mama could tell them a story tonight, too.

Then a question was posed to her in turn and the girl was off again. "I like exploring! she said leaping forward a couple times as if to demonstrate her enthusiasm. "I like playing with Marrah and collecting rocks for Aweho, and I like making the sand in the pond swirl around my paws!" She paused and made a face. "Not right now, though. It's too cold." she shuddered. "I guess sliding on the ice is fun, when you don't fall."

Her chin still hurt from that incident.

Enera paused and looked back at Levi as he mused on the lack of snow and ice where he was from. She cocked her head and wrinkled her nose. "Lucky. I don't like the snow." She glared at the white stuff to punctuate her distaste.

His next words drew her attention back to him. Her brow furrowed in confusion. "What happened last year?" she asked, and then, "You weren't with a pack?" She knew from stories her mama told her that sometimes wolves travelled on their own, but she couldn't imagine whey they would want to. That's why packs became families, after all. Why would Levi have spent the winter alone when he could have found someone to stay with? It was much warmer when you had a mama to snuggle up with at night.

Enera grinned up at her new friend's agreement about snow. Snow was awful. But with her next questions Levi seemed to wilt a little. Enera paused and tilted her head, looking up at the man with a frown. He was not looking at her.

He asked about River, to which Enera crinkled her nose in thought. Had she known a River? She slowly shook her head. "No, sorry," she said before brightening a moment. "I know a Riven! He was my friend. He'd play with me in the pond and and stuff." she looked down and scuffled her foot on the ground. "He left though. I miss him." Riven had been nice, and he knew fun games.