...you would think that, since I have never drawn them wearing clothes (well, Mhina wears a scarf, so I guess someone might count that...and I did have to give her clothes for the cover of the book, but other than that, I don't think I've ever drawn her wearing anything else and I've never drawn Night wearing anything at all.) But, no, they are not nudists. They just like getting rid of their clothes a lot. The boys (especially the wolves, since wolves have the deepest connection to nature of virtually all animalians) do tend to meander around the house and outside in the privacy of their own yard nude. But, they do not do so in public, so I don't think that qualifies...I think. At any rate, I really have to draw them wearing something other than furs to avoid any confusion about the series.

Anyway, Night and Mhina exist in the same universe as all of my main series (Sweet Shoppe, Bella Mariposa, Lion Paws, Hybrid: Gods and Demons). They are actually a part of the Lion Paws series, just on the Adohi side. The stories for the Ayele siblings (for the most part) take place on Panthros. Neha is the exception. She is a mountain lion, so although she belongs to the Ayele storyline, she is from Adohi. In the end, she ends up moving to Panthros with her husband who is a lion, though. Inversely, Mhina was born on Panthros and moved to Adohi when she was young. But, everyone else was born on the land they are currently living on and MOST everyone, in universe, wears clothes...with exceptions. For example, the characters in Hybrid: Gods and Demons are absolutely naturalists and didn't even know the concept of clothes until they encountered the humans of the Black Creek Tribe (although Bat still does not wear anything). The tribesmen made clothes for the hybrids to honor them as deities and also so that Lion and Lioness would be protected in the cold weather seasons. But, if not for the intervention of humans, no one in universe would be wearing clothes at all, so...I guess humans are to thank for that. Even on Catriona Isles, where Sweet Shoppe takes place and the only land where humans never set foot, would have been a series of islands full of natural-living cats had they not come into contact with animalians that felt the influential culture of man. And in the same way of cultural dispersion, all of the series are connected in a similar way.

Marian is actually the character that links the two halves of the Lion Paws series together. She has a connection to the Ayele family that is later revealed in the story. Night is the character that connects to the Sweet Shoppe. He is a child psychiatrist and goes to the island of Calico after the events of the Great Flood and interacts directly with some of the main characters in the Sweet Shoppe series. And Hybrid: Gods and Demons is the one series that has a connection to them all! The characters in Bella Mariposa are so small that they do not interact with the characters from the other series, but they exist on Adohi along with Night, Mhina, and the others. ...also, Bella Mariposa is a lot darker than I think I'm letting on...0__0; But, that's a journal for another day.