diamonds come rolling out

He was ignoring her question, trying to distract her by pulling his teeth through the fur behind her ears, and as much as she hated to admit it, it was pulling her eyes closed with a grumble, leaning back ever so slightly into the touch to direct him to just the right spot... her toes twitched, her leg wanting to kick out instinctively to show just how much she was enjoying it, but she had more self control than that, and managed to limit her response to a curling of her toes in the dirt beneath them.

She was so close to sleep, that it took her a moment to realise what the other wolf was talking about. She opened her eyes enough to watch the dolphins, and the way the luminescence trailed off their fins, swirling up in clouds behind them. He was right. It wasn’t the same roiling, thrash of the ancient fossil fish. It was just as otherworldly, but not nearly so... ominous.

Her unanswered question still hung in the air between them. Until he answered, she wasn’t going to say any more.

"speech".