Status Updates From Children of the Plains: The...

I CANNOT BELIEVE IVE BEEN SLEEPING ON THIS BOEK SINCE NOVEMBER! I'm enjoying it so much so far!!

One day he found the mouse was gone – it had gnawed through the bottom of the cane over several nights and run away. Amero, only five at the time, had cried over the loss. Nianki had told him it was only an animal’s nature to want freedom. He was beginning to understand how the mouse must have felt.

Though he was pleased at having been rescued from the yevi, Amero thought of his current situation and found himself reminded uncomfortably of a field mouse he’d once captured. He had kept the mouse in a hollow length of cane. He would spend entire evenings playing with the mouse, seeing how it reacted to various things he put in its little home, learning what it would and would not eat.

I hoped Nianki wouldn't die bc description mentioned a sister, and I'm so glad she isn't.