A bit of a retcon regarding Sunshine's clothing. She may have been given a hame as a parting gift by her mentor before departing Wayfarers' Haven on the Dewfall. This hame is the pelt of a healer saint who died while caring for victims of a certain epidemic on an orbital colony. She came out of retirement to ease the burden on her fellow healers and contracted the disease from her patients.

Sunshine likes to go for walks around the neighborhood while Sarah is away at school or asleep. She begins tagging along with Manny (the maintenance man from Beating the Heat) as he does his rounds, as she's insatiably curious about human tools. Manny in turn begins picking up Commonthroat.

Spring turns to summer turns to fall, and Sunshine breaks out her hame to cover her furless skin from the autumn chill. Now Manny is not familiar with vulpithecine funeral rites, and only sees a fur coat. He chuckles at the image of a normally furry creature shedding her fur only to put on a fur coat, and after the expected comments about staying away from PETA, he casually asks what animal the coat is made from.

“You mean 'WHO', not 'what',” says Sunshine.

Gears turn in Manny's brain, and after half a minute of stunned silence, he says, “…and what did they do to deserve THAT?!”

“What did she do? She single-handedly saved hundreds of lives during the outbreak of spacer's pox on Frithberg. I'm blessed to bear her holy pelage.”