[there would be dialogue in this story:] (When I was still in high school, people would sometimes call me "blind as a bat" - seeing as I was prone to tripping over books almost all the time. But if they called my girlfriend - Emily - "blind as a bat", they'd be right - because she's...well, she's part bat. She relies on her sense of hearing to sense the world around her - as her ears were the same as those on all kinds of bats. She was also great at flying, due to her mastery at echolocation - but because of her bat-like qualities, she's also nocturnal; she's sleepy during the day, but active at night...maybe a bit *too* active. I found that out first-hand when I was still sleeping - and she was standing at my bedside with a loving gaze...well, I couldn't really tell if it was a gaze, seeing as she was blind.)