Moonspear the palace with the malice

It wasn't very often anyone outside of Hydra or Jarilo asked him for company, so her invitation brightened him a bit despite his mood. His ears lifted and he nodded, glad for the excuse to not have to think about all the things he'd been thinking about. "I can help," he said, though he realized when he said it that likely if she hadn't been able to catch anything, he wouldn't do much better. He had pretty well adjusted to life on the mountain but would never be as practiced as she and her children.

Gannet would have liked to have learned, sometime, the secret to conversation. But still the concept of small talk wasn't one he was very well versed in. He liked to listen when others spoke, but it was the step before; asking the questions that got them speaking - that always escaped him. Luckily this time one was obvious enough to come to the fore. "Where haven't you tried?"

ive had this in drafts for weeks omg