Broken Antler Fen spinefire

he did not turn away, eliciting an approving nod from his counterpart. "cold rain. thunder," she told him, tail waving in a jolly arc. a protracted inhale. "ice, afterward." by which teya meant to say that the water would freeze upon the snow when nightfall arrived.
but this required far too many words, and she simply could not arrange them into a suitable fringe of sound.
quietly she pressed on, pausing to look surreptitiously at penn. "you see lightning strike stone?" she asked, wondering if he had ever seen its work on more than a tree or a shrub or; some hapless soul caught unawares.