Redhawk Caldera I'm a phoenix in the water

Cue Fennec's writer beginning to realize how much she relies on words because visual cues aren't her thing either.  Oops.  At least she could still talk, because if not, that'd be a real situation.  No.  Meerkat hadn't actually really told her about much.  She'd been too excited to see her, apparently, and too eager to hear how she'd gotten there.  Maybe Fennec wouldn't have had to worry so much about lying if she had turned the conversation around.

Instead she'd spilled the bare minimum details and they'd spent the rest of the trip in fairly companiable silence (and idle chatter).

Hopefully her mom got the hint that she wanted to hear more, she really didn't want to ask.  This was what hell felt like. So many remarks, so many witty responses, and she couldn't use a damn one of them.