A few nights ago, I was standing underneath the skylight and happened to look up in time to see hundreds of bats flying above me. A colony, a cloud. That’s what a group of bats is called. But I thought of other words that I like better: a vamp of bats, a sonar of bats, a revenge, a flutter, a sigh. A friend suggested oracle, an oracle of bats. I like that quite a bit, particularly since I’ve stood underneath the skylight for two nights in a row now, hoping to see the bats again. I want to ask them a question. I want the bats to answer me.

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