Redhawk Caldera We got no one to hide from

Despite all of Towhee's dealings with outsiders at these borders, very few had ever commented outright on the way she spoke. She couldn't hear herself, of course, or know the first thing about what she might sound like. But she was aware that she spoke differently, per Raven's teachings of yore. She didn't feel self-conscious about it most of the time, though she felt a slight flush of heat when it was pointed out to her now.

"I'm deaf," she informed him flatly. Her mouth clapped shut and she blinked when he gave a name (she interpreted it as "Cold," though she'd heard stranger monikers) and then identified himself as Finley's brother. "What?" she replied a bit stupidly. It seemed strange, somehow, for her godmother to have some random brother, much less one that spontaneously appeared at the borders. "Prove it."