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Elements:

Rainbow
Snake
Waiting
Bitter (This can be someone being bitter about something, or the bitter taste of a food or drink, or whatever.)
Recovery


Stonehowl’s extensive history recap for all the previous grab bags can be found here: http://www.tawmis.com/stonehowl/stonehowlrecap.html
Elements:
Independence
love (in any possible respect)
Stars
Roses
Stink

“Will I ever be Chief?” Snowspring asked. As the daughter of Shadow and Foxhair, she was nine seasons old, and had Shadow’s dark hair, but in sharp contrast, her vibrant green eyes which both of her parents also had, peered out from the darkness and shadows of her hair, like beaming emerald stars.

“At one time, you would have had to compete with Windfetcher,” Foxhair said, looking from beneath her auburn curls at the daughter of Vineweaver and Stillbreeze, who had grown into a voluptuous, well rounded woman. She was just leaving Spearclaw’s cave, smiling contently. It had been unusual at first, since Spearclaw had shared a bed with Stillbreeze and Vineweaver, and was now enjoying the warm comforts of their daughter. “At one time,” Foxhair continued, now looking back at her daughter, “Windfetcher swore she would take your father’s place as Chief. But,” she smiled, “it seems that after your father, you will be next in line to be chief.”

“And will I get a wolf of my own?” Snowspring asked, leaning against Foxhair’s wolf.

“You will, when the time is right,” Foxhair explained.

“I wish the time was right,” Snowspring sighed, wistfully.

Snowspring looked down from her spot, lying on the wolf and saw Burn and Stream together, with their two year old son, Stonecutter. “I thought humans were evil?”

Foxhair shook her head. “The potential for good and evil is in each person, not their race. There was one of our own who pushed his lover from the top of the tree, to his death.” (She’s referring to Blackstar who pushed his lover Suncaller to his death – see: http://www.tawmis.com/stonehowl/feb2008.html). “Buren is a good man. He fought against his father and the ways of his people to save one of us. And there was even a troll, that had been infatuated with – and quite possibly, in love - your father’s sister, Purespring, and often made her many trinkets.” (She’s referring to Trollblade/Trollhammer/Trollforge – all the same troll, whose name I kept accidentally changing – see: http://www.tawmis.com/stonehowl/august2007.html and http://www.tawmis.com/stonehowl/dec2007.html for more about his infatuation with Purespring).

“You and father have seen so much,” Snowspring noted. “Will I see so much as well?”

“You have your father’s blood coursing through your veins,” Foxhair laughed as she ruffled Snowspring’s black mane of hair. “You will undoubtedly see many things. Like your father, you will undoubtedly be fiercely independent.”

Elsewhere, Windfetcher was picking roses, thankful for their sweet scent that often masked the nearby ocean’s stink.

“Are you sleeping with him?” a voice asked, startling her.

She turned to see her brother, Echo, leaning against a tree. “I can sense magic, but what I can’t sense is the motives of people. I’ve seen you go in Spearclaw’s den a few times, coming out, looking very smug. Is it not strange that he once laid with mother and father and now finds comfort with you?”

“You think I am sharing furs with him?” Windfetcher laughed. Her face made a disgusting look and she spat the words, “No!”

“Then what are you doing?” Echo asked.

“He wants to know more about us. Though he’s grown apart from mother and father, he’s wondered what has kept us together. So I have been spending time with him, lock-sending, and sharing some of the earliest memories I remember, and the stories we’ve shared on the Full Eyes Of The Twin Moons. He has been missing his tribe, and thinking about returning to them.” She looked at her brother, and shook her head. “Is that what everyone else thinks too?”

Echo smirked.

Windfetcher shook her head. “No! Since falling away from mother and father, he’s been sharing his furs with Snowcloud. Which is why I think he misses his tribe. They talk about how life out on the plains were. But before he leaves, he wants to take the memories I have of all we’ve endured – because the Plainswalkers have never encountered others. They’d seen Preservers, but trolls were not something they encountered much of. There was the occasional humans, but the humans gave them a wide range, because of their lion mounts.”

To Be Continued.

• Shadow (Male Soul Name: Tyru) – Black Hair, Tanned, Green Eyes (Elder brother to Purespring, Chief)
• Foxhair (Female Soul Name: Loun) – Red Hair, Green Eyes (Hunter)
• Snowspring (Female, Soul Name: Tylo – Black Hair, Green Eyes) – Nine years old. Daughter of Shadow and Foxhair.
• Spearclaw (Male, Soul name: Lren) – Brown Hair, Green Eyes (Scout) – Former lovemate of Stillbreeze (and Vineweaver)
• Vineweaver (Male Soul Name: Reyk) – Auburn Hair, Blue Eyes (Tree shaper, Soul Mate of Stillbreeze, Plant Shaper)
• Stillbreeze (Female Soul Name: Hewl) – Brown Hair, Brown Eyes (Soul Mate of Vineweaver, Tanner)
• Echo (Male Soul Name: Ayav) – Brown Hair, Green Eyes (Cub of Stillbreeze & Vineweaver, Magic)- About eighteen years old.
• Windfetcher (Female Soul Name: Burm) – Auburn Hair, Brown Eyes (Cub of Stillbreeze & Vineweaver) – About eighteen years old, formerly interested in being the next chief
• Snowcloud (Female, Soul Name: Mill) – White Hair, Green Eyes (based off white lions)
• Stream (Female Soul Name: Vree) – Red Hair, Green Eyes (Healer)
• Buren (Human, Brown hair, hazel eyes) – About 20 years old in human years
• Stonecutter (half elf/half human, son of Stream and Buren – brown hair, green eyes) – About two years old