Heh. So far so good, BA. I loved the first incarnation of this story, and I'm liking how round 2 is shaping up.

A few small things I spotted in this post, though:
two wings in and L-shaped configuration
That should be "an L-shaped".
soto voiced.
Two "t"s in "sotto".
bigotted people
One "t" in "bigoted". This is probably where the "t" from "sotto" got to. <grin>
At first they seemed so deriding
"Derisive" would probably the better choice, grammatically, but is that really the word you want, either way? "Deriding" and "derisive" both require active communication -- speech or writing. Maybe what you mean is "contemptuous"?

-- Bob
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Je suis Charlie.