King Elk Forest Gitchee Gitchee Goo

the woman skittered backward, reminding the girl suddenly of a doe with her large eyes and expressive ears. she paused carefully, glancing over her once. her gaze was drawn back to her face only when she began to speak, the sound odd-sounding and strained. "hello?", she murmured in turn, word both an echo of the girl's greeting and a question. 

she named herself, of so the woman though, and in the interest of acting carefully in the face of the fawn-like stranger she slowly echoed again the action, yet instead substituting  "anatha."