<div class="floatleft">(http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad342/krystal_dragoness13/Naliya2.jpg)</div><strong>Who:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Where:</strong>Central cooking hearth<br/><strong>When:</strong>Late afternoon<br/><hr/><br/>Naliya happened to be coming out of the sweat lodge and walking into the central cooking hearth when she saw the backs of Valko and Ayshia as they went together to the Crane Hearth. She couldn't help but smile to herself. It seemed Ayshia was being true to her word and giving her brother a chance. Not that she had doubted her friend would. She noticed that vegetables had been cut for dinner and assumed Ayshia had done it but no one was around beginning dinner. It was clear there was enough for the camp there. So, since she had nothing better to do at the moment she decided she would do it, or at the very least start it. As she went to set her things out of the way she noticed two of Valko's blankets. She grabbed them and folded them up then set them with her things.<br/><br/>Naliya looked over what was already out and then went to the storage to get the things to make a nice meal for everyone. As she was getting the things Runa ran up to her with a happy little triumphant yip because she had found her mommy. She smiled and praised her, "Hello Runa. Good girl for finding me on your own. You are such a smart pup. Come on, we're going to make dinner for everybody. Won't Lorna be surprised?" The pup yipped in agreement then followed her back to the central cooking hearth. The woman set the things aside then stoked the fire and added some more fuel to it to get it going good for cooking. Then she sat on the ground near it and began preparing the meat. Runa sat next to her happily snatching the scraps of extra fat and gristle out of the air as Naliya tossed it to her. One very positive thing about having both her and Juju around was no scrap of meat was wasted. Once she was done with trimming the meat she handed the pup a meaty bone she had grabbed for her from storage. The wolf happily took it and moved away a bit to gnaw on it.<br/><br/>The woman cut the deer meat she had chosen into thick strips and skewered each piece on two long sticks pretty much weaving the meat onto the sticks. She also took some of the smaller pieces of vegetables and pushed them onto the stick in between where the meat was stuck so it rested against the meat to give them both flavor. Then she sprinkled them with a bit of seasoning. It was something simple but one of her favorite ways to have meat and something the camp as a whole hadn't had in awhile. She planned to lightly boil the rest of the vegetables and season them after draining them.