I know few creatures that would be possessed of fur and feathers both.

[True, he's made no more of a study of the creatures that live in the hills than she has, but even so, it's not something that he would consider typical. Far more likely that it had been two creatures.

But if so... what.]

Perhaps they came through prior? A creature in flight might well leave behind such traces as these.

[Though that, too, only raises more questions.]