Rosewater Oasis Concrete colony

her eyes lit with a plaguing gleam at his words. feathers ruffled, beak pinched shut into a thin line. 

foolish four-legged beast. 

"then you must ask better questions," she challenged with dispassionate ire. 

she thought him halfwitted, as she did with much of his kind. why waste breath on questions you do not want answered? 

she puffed out her chest with displeasure as she awaited his questions, sight flickering between hare and coywolf.