Ravensblood Forest anytime

Pied merely smiled in agreement, her innards still twinging with embarrassment at her behavior. Although she loved her grandmother and respected her in many ways, she did not endeavor to take after her that way. Although Pied wasn't necessarily formal, she simply wasn't that uncouth by nature.

When he told her his name was actually Sandy, she looked up from her paws, her face surprised, then suspicious. "No, it isn't," she guessed, though her tongue lolled out in the next instant. "But, yeah, it really is apt. I understand if you want to keep it for your own." She stopped short of punctuating that remark with a simpering honey.

"So what were you doing up there, besides looking majestic?" she wondered, eyeballing his distant promontory. "How were the views—and the weather?" she pinned on with an ironic smile.