You might have some situation where I could help and mention it without asking or intending to ask that I do---like just incidentally, in explaining what you've been up to. Or I might hear about an opportunity to help you out from some third party person. This may be a big place, but it seems like one where word could travel at 'small town' speed.

[Sam shrugs, smiling. People talk! And she's seen nothing which would suggest sharing scuttlebutt is a strictly human habit.]

Oh,

[Very carefully, Sam leans over a little, to take the feather. Still smiling, she shakes her head.]

Nah. Though there's a good-sized group of us who have successfully sent a message somewhere the way I want to, nobody's managed to track down a live rooster which couldn't crow. I think we've all given up on it... and probably should've said? Sorry. Thank you, though.