[/html]Caves...Skye would have to think about that one, but she didn't think there were many, if any at all, caves in the area. "I'll have to think about that myself," she said in reply to Malachi's question and Shawchert's voice saying that he, too, didn't know where to find a cave in their pack's territory. She knew there were large rock formations in the forest, undoubtedly with caves in them, but those were tiny caves - cracks, even. She knew Malachi, even if she thought herself a wolf, was really a bear - and a large one. And large bears needed large caves.
And she did know why Malachi thought she was so slow and sluggish in the summer, Skye thought wryly. She was a bear - and bears hibernated in the summer. She wondered if Malachi would find a cave, and if she did, would she sleep in it all summer? Would she need to eat lots of giant squid beforehand? She knew bears needed lots of food before hibernation, and wondered if her packlands had enough giant squid for a large bear to sustain herself for three months. But perhaps, since Malachi thought herself a bear, she had found a way to override the instinct to sleep for weeks on end and would stay away for the summer like Shawchert and herself.