“Did you live alone?” Coal asked. (goodnight)Gecko's pins poked him as Coal moved each feather. "That's what I-ah thought," he lifted his free wing. "But it only worked fah one." He folded his wing back in. It would be a sad mistake if he tangled it again.
"The forest," he nodded his head toward the South. "Above the cove. I lived neah the boulder that-" His teeth showed through the smile that washed upon his face. It was a memory he had temporarily forgotten. His mind drifted off into silence as he looked in the direction of his old home.
"Yeah, there," he pointed, returning to his current predicament. "Not too, uh, far from he-ah."