After a prayer session at the Aurorium, Lara-Le heads home and finds Knuckles waiting for her. Wynmacher hands her a drink and suggests she spend time bonding with Knuckles while he cooks dinner. Knuckles explains to Lara-Le that he returned home by creating a strange energy tunnel and asks her if she understands how he did it. She tells Knuckles that Locke must have done something while he was still an egg, as he hatched in a third of the time that most echidnas do. Within a few months it was clear that Knuckles was extremely intelligent. Locke began training Knuckles at the age of three and, frustrated that she had no say in her child's upbringing, Lara-Le spoke with her mother-in-law, Jenna-Lu. Jenna suggests that Lara should try to mold Knuckles in ways that Locke doesn't, since traini