Blacktail Deer Plateau now that the evening is slowing

"oh," came her quiet voice, "okay." her ears flattened, shame and upset gathering in her chest. she's quiet a long moment, and then, 

"I j-just thought—because it was frozen, the pond, and I thought, I-I thought the ice, um, went all the way down, and um, I wanted t-to know if the fish? if they were in the ice, or, um or if there was still water underneath, but then, um, it would be pretty cold so I didn't know if they were still, still living?" sharp intake of breath, and then, "maybe they were in the mud, at the bottom, or in the plants, but it'd be-be pretty boring to stay there the whole winter, I think, so I—the fish." she snaps her maw shut then, nervous rambling getting a little out of hand.