Redsand Canyon Girl with the bat.

This afternoon, Towhee decided to check out their prospective digs in the married housing. She gravitated toward the first one on the left, though it appeared it might be occupied. Towhee trotted to the other end of the row and found an open den just behind the Plebians’ apartments. She pushed through some brush out back and found herself at the edge of a pond, with a direct line of sight to the palazzo due south.

Returning to the front, Towhee squatted and marked the patch of ground just outside the door. She then ducked inside the dim interior, sniffing along the foot of the stone wall. The dirt floor was bare save for a pile of whitish bird shit near the back. Towhee squinted at it, wondering how it got there, and casually glanced upward just in time for a bat to fly at her face.