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-I'm... not sure, actually. I've never gotten close to one before,- Towhee admitted. She had never hunted much on her own and had never chanced an encounter with a porcupine. But she was trying to dabble a bit more, just like Alyx, so this would be good experience for her too, provided they didn't take any quills to the face.

-Remember,- she advised as Alyx began moving, keeping pace with her and switching to speaking aloud with her paws preoccupied, "I'm patently terrible and you're inexperienced. I definitely want to give it a try, we just have to be very careful."

They arrived at the base of a tree, which Alyx began to circle. Towhee lowered her own head to sniff at the ground, then raised it a little to inhale near the rough bark on the lower trunk. Her orange eyes then traveled upward. She didn't see a porcupine, though she noticed there was a hole in the tree several yards out of reach.

"It might be in there," Towhee said, tapping Alyx and pointing, "in which case, uh..." She'd almost proposed they bark at it, but what sort of dumb creature would come out of hiding in that scenario? She licked her lips thoughtfully, peering at the rough, fragrant bark of the pine tree. The trunk was fairly slender, so maybe... "We could put our forelegs against the tree and try shaking it?"