Just before sunset, Snork awoke. He was glad that the hottest part of the day was over. He walked over to Strafe and woke her up.
"We should probably get moving. We need to get as far as we can tonight."
Strafe nodded and nudged Kaga awake. Then she stood up and stretched tiredly. She was surprised by how well she had slept in the heat of the day. A random thought crossed her ming: it had been four months since the massive earthquake. Much of the time had been spent traveling with her new friends, yet they had never told eachother much about themselves. Strafe was interested to hear about the others. Kaga was the dinosaur who she wanted to be her mate yet she knew alomst nothing about his past. The same went for the others. Strafe decided to save the conversation for later, when everyone was awake.
After the group was underway, Strafe said aloud, "You know, we've been traveling together all this time but we have never told anyone about ourselves. How about we share our past? That could be our traveling topic for the day."
Snork nodded and said, "Well, since this was your idea, why don't you start us off?"
Strafe replied, "Well, you now most of what happened recently, but..."
She explained how she had spent her entire shildhood searching for the Great Valley with her herd, some of the close encounters she had been through, the earthquake, and the death of her family. So far, Snork and Sy were the only ones aware that she had lost her family in the earthquake. Strafe had not shared that detail with anyone else until now.
Snork explained how his herd had wandered about aimlessly, his mother being killed by a sharptooth, his father blaming him for it and hating him, and how he had met Strafe.
Strafe shuddered at the mention of Snork's father, seeing as how he had threatened to break her neck just because she wanted to rest under a tree.
