"Then it's a deal!"

"I'm going to need to learn Australian."

Her mother laughs. "I'm fairly sure the colonists speak English, honey. Not sure about any natives there might be."

While they discuss possible linguistic difficulties, Tabby talks to Janet. 

"So, what are you? You don't smell wolfy or birdy."

"I am an elephant."

"Oh! I've seen pictures of those! Didn't think they had them in England."

"Not naturally, no. But I followed a friend and then sort of never left."

"I don't think I've heard about elephant-kin before."

"We're really quite rare. And," she leans down to whisper, vampire-quiet, "It's hard for us to have babies."

"Oh. I'm sorry."

"I'm used to it. But that's why there's not many elephant-kin."

"I wonder if there's any in Australia."

Nope. "I suppose we'll find out."

"Ahem. Everyone, I think we should move on before we manage to attract attention for standing in the woods."

"Indeed. Come along children."

The party moves on and disperses.

Terry is very insistent on visiting the ship they're going to use, seeing if it's seaworthy. An extra bribe to the smugglers is enough to secure this permission, but he asks Winona to follow along. "You know these... People... Better than me."

"Yes. I doubt you'd have much experience with....extra legal merchentry."

"Enough experience with mechanical things, though."

"You mind looking after my twins?" she asks Rilah.

"Of course not. We'll need to help each other along the way after all. I'll try not to spoil them rotten in four hours."

She turns to the twins. "Now you be good for Miss Redstone. And remember, think human."

"So clumsy and slow?"

"Don't be rude, dear."

"And so bad-smelling, sometimes. Do you think you two would want to learn a wolf game?"

"Sure!"

The wolf game involves scent tracking a small rock that Rilah hides and trying to carry a ball across the forest in changed form, fighting each other for it if necessary. Rilah rules that the vampires can team up, having smaller changed forms.

"This'll be fun! I don't get to play it much at all."