"It's not technically speech," she says, laughing a little. "It's emotions and stuff. Kinda? I don't know if 'I'm hungry' is an emotion, or 'I have food for you', but I can both send and receive feeling that translate that way." She pulls a bottle of water from her bag and takes a quick sip.

"I have mixed success with creatures that like the water. Most of what I get from fish just doesn't make sense, but with the amphibians I've ran into it does? The amphibians were just much more simple than something like a cat or a dog. The most complex thought they had was 'big' when I put my hand out to hold them."