Mudminnow River Early Wolf Gets the Cat-fish

"Only watched," she admitted, with a sidelong dart of her gaze. But she snapped her eyes quickly back up to settle on Pema again. "But once I find him, I'll fix that." And if his words came in garbled strings and everything but wolfish, that too would prove a valuable study, albeit an unexpected one.

With her temper on the cool and her mind decided the woman meant no harm, Nanook tipped her head, thoughtful. "Do you speak any languages other than our own?" She knew others did - her own father, for one, and Xan to a lesser extent. Nanook herself had picked up a scattered array of phrases and words both from Kove and her ventures North, but considered herself nowhere near fluent in anything but the common tongue, and the wild and gestural communication used by those mute or too feral for words.