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Wasp mostly just smiled and nodded amicably while Watch Me waxed poetic on the many members of his tribe. "They all sound wonderful," Wasp gushed, not without sincerity, when finally it seemed he had been introduced to everyone. "I can't wait to meet them!"

Wasp gazed across the horizon as the older buck trailed off, realizing suddenly that this was the first time he had actually seen the horizon. He chuckled to himself and stifled a yawn as that soothing, warm wind washed over him. "I could do for a rest myself." He gazed up at the spire of rock - when had it become so close? - and gestured vaguely to it with one hoof. "Under there looks good. Won't the kiokote be surprised when they find us there!"

Wasp followed Watch Me and dozily settled down in the shadow of the tower. "Hmm...well, I suddenly can't keep my eyes open...goodnight," he murmured before slipping off to sleep.

Wasp woke up to a turtle gnawing on his tail and Chrysanthemum Ashes poking him with a stick. He groaned and batted the stick away first.

"Ah, you're awake," Ash said with a smirk. "Good thing, another five minutes and I would have thrown you in the fire. And the turtle. I keep telling you we should just eat that thing." Ash waved the stick around in front of the turtle's face until it latched on to it and let go of Wasp's tail.

Wasp inspected the damage to his tail. The turtle had made a right mess of the fur, but not actually made it to any flesh, at least. Wasp smoothed his new haircut down as best he could. It was hard to defend his decision to keep the thing. "If nothing else it's very good at carrying things."

Ash snorted. "As long as they aren't edible. What was that all about, anyway? You wouldn't wake up."

"I was having...a dream. From...the Swamp?" Wasp squinted, trying to remember. "I was on the plains, and there was this tall, straight rock...and...I think there was another kin, too."

Ash rolled her eyes and cuffed his head with her hoof. "Why would the Swamp be sending you dreams about the plains? You're an Acha! Acha have nothing to do with swamps or plains. It was just a dream!" Something he said seemed odd, though. "A tall, straight rock?"

"I didn't get a good look at it, but it was definitely a rock...and it stuck straight out of the ground. It was tall, too." The rock was hazy in his mind, but he was pretty sure that was what it had looked like.

"There was one of those in the desert," Ash said, and grinned fondly. "I tried to burn it down."

Wasp rolled his eyes and got up to find some food. He tried to remember the name of the kin from the dream. He couldn't even remember what it - he? -looked like. An excitable...kiokote? Wasp sighed. Maybe the kiokote would remember him if they ever met again. If in fact it had not all been a dream.