Redhawk Caldera went to the moped store

tegan snorted at towhee's comment, cause it was pretty funny-- but if he was gonna make this believable he couldn't be so jumpy with his emotions. this was some serious shit he was trying to tell her!! 

-now is not the time for jokes!- he said sternly, though his lips were still upturned into a smirk. "yamalam," tegan repeated the word out loud, so towhee could see his mouth move and maybe actually make sense of the nonesense word... or maybe it still wouldn't make sense, whatever, tegan didn't have time to worry about that. -it's this creature, it's like half-rabbit-half-bird, walks around and makes this ding-dong sound, super rare!- he then began his vague description. he'd yet to go over in his mind how he would've heard about this before towhee had-- as she had quite a bit more time alive than he had-- but that was a problem for later. 

-you wouldn't believe it,- he added with a convincing roll of his shoulders, -but i've just gotten into a tussle with one-- chased it clear out of the territory!-