Redsand Canyon Girl with the bat.

Suddenly, the praefectus was crying out for him to stop. Kallik obliged mostly out of surprise. She had also called the thing a sky puppy, and he had no clue what that was. He looked at her with a confused frown. 

That is food, he told her. You don't keep and name food. He thought by now he had seen it all when it came to Towhee's weird stuff, but she continued to surprise him. 

What are you doing in here, anyway? he asked with genuine curiosity. Looking for someone else to ambush in the privacy of their den? He raised an eyebrow as he said the last bit. This den was empty as far as he knew, so she would have to look elsewhere.