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"Yeah," he confirmed with a firm nod of his head. He rested his cheek in the grass and peered up at Towhee, genuinely perplexed that he didn't know she'd be eaten. After all, she was deaf. It was sort of a fluke that she was born into an awesome family who took care of her and taught her to communicate. Nightjar himself would have eaten his own daughter if he had one that was born completely deaf, in spite of his own partial disability. At the same time, he was proud that Towhee had survived. They were sort of like soul siblings, or something.

"Mom didn't like potential weakness," he explained succinctly, then quickly added, "but don't take it too personally. She would've eaten me, too, I think, but she never knew." Actually, Nightjar had told Fox about his bum ear back when Peregrine lost half his eyesight, but he was fully grown and there was nothing she could do about it. He didn't remember it at all.

"Wanna know a secret?"