Ami's insistence gives Elleru pause, her uncertainty showing for just a moment as it knits into her brow and pulls her lips together, pursing them tightly. She fears that speaking in her native tongue -- a language which is very bestial indeed -- will reveal what she is beneath her upright guise. However... perhaps kaulahren are not native to other worlds. The first upright she met didn't seem to recognize her natural form in the slightest. If everyone has been drawn to Anchor as she has, plucked from their homes like flowers, then maybe no one knows of her people?

That's an enticing and frightening prospect: no one knows what she is, but that may just give them more reason to fear her if they find out. Uprights seem to be afraid of what they do not understand so often. Perhaps if she can find the open-minded ones first...

Well, Ami has been kind to her so far. It's only fair she return the gesture. Her mouth quirks with a hint of shyness.

"Well... forgive me if it comes off wrong." Or comes out -- one of those. She attempts her native pronunciation with her upright guise, and while she manages better than she thought she might, it likely comes off strange that her name is composed of a series of harsh trills and buzzes. The sound is more akin to a cross between a vulture and a songbird than a spoken word.