Redhawk Caldera Spring Candy

Sarcasm was pretty much lost on Towhee, so when Birk's mouth movements caught her eye and she read his lips, her face scrunched in confusion. Choosing to ignore his nonsensical statement as a whole, she zeroed in on the unwanted pet name. -I'm a big girl,- she declared insistently. By now, she understood that not everyone could follow her signing, so she did pause to wonder if he'd gotten any of that. One of her teeth dug into her lip as she shot Raven a pensive, somewhat self-conscious glance.

"I," she tried saying out loud, "am a big girl." To Birk, it may have sounded very slow, strange and garbled. Towhee couldn't know. But her sister flashed her a surprised and pleased smile, then nodded and wagged her tail in encouragement. This heartened the pup and she fought against the grin threatening to bloom across her face. She glanced pointedly away from Birk, not wanting him to see it, then took about thirty seconds to school her expression back into cool blankness before turning back to him.

"My name is Towhee," she said slowly, making her name sign as she introduced herself. They'd met before but the pup honestly couldn't remember his name, mostly because she had classed him as an outsider then. But Raven's insistence to the contrary had begun to get through to her. "What is yours?" Hopefully she was pronouncing things well enough that he could understand.