Totoka River Now I'm on the outside

His response made Wildfire's face crinkle slightly in confusion. Why would he go around shouting a secret password? She would be lying if she said the entire thing didn't intrigue her, especially the way he talked. She found herself enjoying the strange lilt of his voice; there was something sort of fun about his speech patterns. Unfortunately, she was so caught up in the individual words—particularly all those "ye"s and the rolling "R"s—that she didn't really string together the meaning of them in its entirety.

Realizing belatedly that he had asked her a question, Wildfire replied with another, "Ummm." She mentally backpedaled, then squinted through the dusk. "Meet them? Who's them?" And, for that matter, "What's a cabin?" That one she couldn't decipher, even with contextual clues.