She listened attentively as he described the process of raft-building. She figured she could get the logs together with her mouth and her paws, but tying the vines would be out of the question. Her ears went forward proudly as he spoke of her knowledge of humans. "I've never seen one, though, although if they're as destructive as you claim they are, perhaps that's a good thing." The sudden onset of sadness in his tone, wasn't missed, and she felt a pang of pity for the quirky lemur. The forests and mountains she had known were all pristine and undisturbed, she had never had to deal with loss of her home.
A wistful look came into her eyes as he described the animals of his home. "I'd love to visit an island like that one day," she said. "I'll bet you there's a few within swimming distance of the mainland." She'd have to try her paw and swimming one day, although the idea of meeting a shark or other dangerous animal in the water sent a cold chill her spine. She had only seen a shark once before, after a storm had flung it's corpse up onto beach one season. The stark black-and-white body, dead eyes, and huge toothy mouth had terrified her as a yearling."Speech"
