Oystercatcher Tide Pools absolute misery

Posting Order: Jizaar, Ying, Hua, Mei.

A new female approached, this one pure white—or were they grey in color? She came near the first female and seemed to know her. ’They talk like this,’ she said, and then spoke in the first female’s strange tongue.

Jizaar said nothing, wondering what would happen now that there were two women here.

’I am Ying. Who are you?’ The grey-scale woman stared at him with wide eyes.

Jizaar looked back and forth between the two women, and then he opened his mouth to speak—

A new woman appeared, this one dark in appearance, and spoke again the foreign tongue.

Jizaar’s mouth snapped shut, and he made an obvious effort to peer around and behind the three females. “Are there any more of you hiding in the sand or the water?” he teased, glancing at Ying, who was the only one who had spoken his language so far. “Should Jizaar wait longer before he speaks? Hmm?”

The first female, the black-and-white one, spoke up in his language, then, explaining what she had first said to him.

“Ah,” was his reply. In all honesty, he was a little bit overwhelmed at the sudden appearance of three wolves at once. He thought for a moment about how he wished to proceed, and decided to leap at this opportunity to meet new friends and learn something from it. “Your language, what do you call it?” he asked, keeping his voice light, friendly, and inquisitive.