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“Hello, Casimir! Thank you for, uh, not pretending you can't hear me, haha!” Aster leaned over the branch to get a better look at the white wolf. He was certainly polite! That made her feathers sleek down in a state of not-alarm.

“Ah, that is unfortunate for me, but understandable.” She bobbed her head in a sequence of tiny understanding nods. Then a cheerful little tweet. “Ah, well, I’ll find it somehow!”

Then the bird tilted her head to the left, then the right. “Huh, you’re a newcomer here? I though wolves tended to stay with their family packs or close to that territory range for most of their lives. Perhaps that was a silly assumption of me, but from up here it looks like ground-dwellers don’t… well, they don’t explore too much, compared to most birds, and I explore even more than most birds.”