"Nothing I am confident describing."

"Keep me posted as you think on it?" asks Bella.

"I will tell you of solid conclusions when I have any."

"I can use tentative conclusions, too," Bella points out. "They'll at least give me something to go on even if I can't - trust my weight to them."

He shakes his head.

"Nothing you can put in words?" sighs Bella.

He nods.

"Oh well." Bella finished eating a while ago. "After lunch do you want to see our room?" she asks Tony. "I took the bottom bunk, I hope that's okay."

"Sure," says Tony.

"I didn't bring any decorations or anything, or a lot of stuff besides school supplies, but I have an owl so her stuff is in there. Do you guys have familiars?"

"I've got an eagle," says Tony. "Her name's Nike."

"An eagle, ooh," says Bella. "Does she do letters or is she just a pet? My owl's called Euterpe."

"She'll do letters if she feels like it."

"Is that usually?"

"I haven't had her that long."

"Has she ever done a letter or do you just figure she would if she were in the mood since that's what being in the mood means?" laughs Bella.

"I asked."

"...Do magic eagles talk? Euterpe's pretty clever but she can't exactly answer questions."

"She doesn't use words, but she can make herself pretty well understood."

"How? Maybe I need to pay closer attention to Euterpe."

"...I dunno, she just... does stuff," says Tony.

"Maybe she'll show me sometime," says Bella.

Tony shrugs.

"Euterpe makes musical little noises. It's why I named her that. I thought owls just hooted till I was in a shopful of them."

"I wanted a raven," says Sherlock, "because ravens speak, but the shop was out and there hasn't been time to go back."