The girl stared at the form descending from the sky, her mother?s friend Elliot was drifting down towards her in what was becoming a repeating pattern. She was being summoned by her mother, who was no doubt busy doing something else. The flying fox perched briefly between her shoulder blades as he often did upon her mother but quickly took to the air when it became obvious she was heading the wrong way. In time she would learn where to head when she saw the bat dropping towards her but for now the lands were still new enough that no definitive meeting place was imbedded in her mind.
The journey there was uneventful, no words shared between them which was only in part because Keiki would miss them even if Elliot spoke. The girl arrived soon after and seated herself before her parents, the bat taking to the air again and briefly nestling between her mother?s shoulder blades, his little mouth whispering a few words Keiki could not make out but that made her mother shake her head and made the white woman?s shoulder rise and fall in a sigh, before he took to the air and perched beneath a branch further away.
"Speech"
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