Rosewater Oasis A white stag pulls up a stool and bellows hymns to enchantments.

Deaf?

Wolfs could just not hear? Impossible! No, she didn't want to assume, but Wolfs have always heard. At least, it hadn't come up before in Kusuma's little life, aside from an off-handed comment or two (what were 'hands'?). 

There were a lot of things that Kusuma didn't understand, and she didn't claim to know much. Mrs. Wolf, Kusuma is sorry for... rude- Rude was the least of her worries. Wolfs and Kusuma have not gotten along often. Why is Mrs. Wolf here?

She did not know if Towhee was married or not, but she assumed so - most women she met were married in some form or fashion.

And how much of tribe did she know? If she was S'ari's friend, certainly she was welcomed in sandland, at least by coyote standard.