King Elk Forest the cold earth slept below

"Bat," the stranger replied and she couldn't help herself. "Huh, that's weird. I've never met another Bat before."

The way she drawled the word "name" made the youth wonder if maybe Bat 2.0 was deaf, like Towhee. (Let's disregard the part where the hybrid had literally just repeated what she'd said...) -Hello,- she signed, unaware that ptero was exclusive to the Redhawks and not some widespread lexicon all hearing impaired wolves used. -How are you?- And that was pretty much all the ptero she knew.