The journey
They set out into the night, Banon had decided they would swim up river to the oldest part of the forest. She had never heard of the bad thing in the sky hurting beavers there.
Banon’s name also had a special meaning of Queen.
In that part of the forest there are so many trees. Banon told them that this was going to be a good place to live. It was a long swim and they stayed with other beaver families along the way. This was hard for Bettrys, the other young beavers played games she did not know. She missed the games she would play with her conkers, shells and pebbles.
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Other parents gave her lots of advice and tried to get her to do things in ways she was not used to. Mum and dad had already shown her how to pull logs and branches and how to fell trees. She did not like being told how to do these things their way.
She did not like sharing a bed space with other kits that she didn’t really know either. Some of them teased her and Bevyn, saying that they would have killed the bad thing in the sky rather than running away and leaving their dad and brother.