I froze, or rather the bird body tensed up, automatically starting to fluff its feathers aggressively as I heard a distant voice. It was definitely in my head, I knew from the way Cassie had 'talked' to us before. I immediately took off with some difficulty straight from the ground, spreading my wings and trying to catch hot air to make it easier. A ray of sunlight guided me to a thermal and as I ascended into the sky, I replied to Sam,
<I heard it. I'm going to shout...> It would make as much sense for Sam to shout as me, but for some reason I thought people might think it weird. Then I tried to speak as loudly as I could without actually speaking with this eagle beak and tongue. <Who's speaking? Who are you?> I then regretted it, trying to whisper to Sam and hoping that the thought-speak wouldn't carry, <Sam, what if it's Visser Three?! What do we do? He doesn't know about us!> I circled in the air, trying to act normal and look out for a blue centaur-deer hybrid with a scorpion-like tail. If it was Visser Three, what could I do? I could attack, or run away...maybe I should pretend to be an Andalite? Did any other humans have this power?