Redtail Rise ritenuto

She'd always found it interesting that people poured their hearts out to her when she could not reply back with words. It was as if her silent listening invited a torrent from the soul. She continued to lay down as she listened to Ashlar, perking her ears and keeping her eyes on him from the ground to show that she was paying attention.

He was worried he wasn't making the right choices. Perhaps worried that he would never find the right words, or wondering if any words at all would help the situation, whatever it was. She offered him a sympathetic look, her eyes going soft and sad for a moment.

Then, 'Do you sing? Or is it everything?'

She blinked, the shook her head with a smile. No. No singing. But... She tilted her head back, breathing deeply, and swept her muzzle from left to right slowly, staring up at the sky. She swiveled in her ears around, too, all of which was to say: I don't speak or sing. I listen!