"For bats, of course, there is no such thing as a darkness too dark; they are conoisseurs.
But there is grace, too, in the dark: Navajo folklore holds bats as the earliest of the world's creatures, created while the whole world was in blackness, flying in the company of twelve insects through the newborn unlit earth ... "
from 'The Golden Mole and Other Treasure', by Katherine Rundell