Feeling Kiche moving behind her, Aisling looked over her shoulder, frowning to see her friend in such a state. <b style="color:#231d14">"Kiche, why can't you just believe her?" Aisling muttered, as if she had no real intention of having him hear her. True concern and sadness welled in the corners of her eyes, but as the black wolf spoke again, she felt the walls in her mind closing in again. Kiche let out an awful sound, and Aisling yelped, looking at the wolf in front of her. "Shut him up, Aisling!" Pangur Ban began to hiss in her mind, and her shoulders hunched together. "Or I'll do it!" There was excessive anger in her feline friend's voice, and it frightened the girl.
Twisting away from the girl, Aisling crouched beside Kiche, and, with one apologizing look at Kauda, pressed beside the larger wolf, and began to hum something that she remembered her mother singing. It was once a song with words, but Aisling had long forgotten them. <b style="color:#231d14">"speech."