Redtail Rise Like no one ever was,

She was in awe, or maybe she was mocking him. Reki wasn't astute enough to know the expression upon her face, but he felt keenly embarrassed for the fuss being made. If she believed him or not he couldn't say; but he had been truthful. He looked to his toes again and shifted uncomfortably. . . until she began to explain herself.

Lilia had a funny way of talking. It was a little bit hard to track at first. The more she talked (and she talked a lot) the easier it became to translate the slurring of her sounds, but she didn't elaborate much on what exactly a pinsept was.

He was expressive in his own way: a wide oh mouth, a mirroring of her surprised wide-eyed look from before. Tha's cool.

I don' think I'm anyone's favorite. He admitted next. I has -- I haved, brothers an' a sisser, but. . . Reki was crestfallen swiftly enough as he remembered them, and how distant he had felt when they'd played games, as he was often an outsider looking in. Too afraid to participate, too over-stimulated by the noise and the chaos of it.

This meeting was quickly dissolving in to a pity-party.