When they rose in the morning, the twins had managed to burrow out of the earth mound their father had created. They were racing in and out of the trees chasing Kim and the bunnies. Lily and Jax were readying breakfast, their voices low murmurs.<br/><br/>"I don't know where she went," Lily was saying. Jax turned around, scratching his head.<br/><br/>"You sure she didn't say anything to you?" he asked.<br/><br/>Lily snapped, "I have told you three times. Do you think I made up something?"<br/><br/>"Well, why would she go off and leave her tent?" he asked, wandering over to raise the flap, peering inside.<br/><br/>"It looked like to me she had been crying. Her eyes were pretty red and puffy. Not a good look for her." Lily said, stirring the pot."I asked her was everything okay and could I do anything to help her, get some water or something. She just shook her head and kind of made this low moaning sound, saying, that should have been me. over and over. She went back into her tent, came back with a backpack, left going that way," the petite Hase pointed off to the Wests with the wooden spoon in her hand.<br/><br/>Taryn heard the voices and was immediately on guard as she realized her childer were not with her. Shaking back her red hair, she slid out the opening made by small paws. The fog hung in the trees and the smoke from the campfire drifted flat across the clearing. Lily and Jax were in deep conversation but the giggling disembodied voices revealed the good health of Tristan and Lark.<br/><br/>"Okay, you two," she called." Front and center." Children not quite human and not entirely feline skidded to a stop at her feet.<br/>"Hi, Momma, you look pretty this morning," Tristan said with all the charm of his Kuguar father. Taryn raised her eyebrow at him.<br/>"Hi, Mommy, I love you." piped Lark, gazing at her mother with those unearthly red eyes that seemed to see far more than what stood in front of her.<br/><br/>She held out her arms, patting them close to her." A little birdie told me that neither one of you has washed this morning." They both turned red in the face for neither of them liked the water. "Come, we will prepare for the day." Over their useless protests, she herded them toward the stream.