Barrow Fields guzila

anu's long ears strained to listen, and it took him some time to piece together rokig's response. rokig's voice was perfectly understandable, but anu was poorly acquainted with the language, and repeated and reassembled the sentence over in his head until it made sense.

ah, they occupied an island off the coast. not yet a pack, apparently - anu wished to know the reasoning for this; could they be converted, would this fellow be of any use to him? how very much a hawk anu was, using rokig as a chesspiece rather than regarding him as an individual. "not a pack?" he repeated, confused - if they were not a pack, what were they?