Redhawk Caldera Bosses are bad, dude

Normally, he wasn't so good at subtlety. This was a rare instance where he managed not to come right out and say what he was thinking before enticing his audience into hearing it. He watched expectantly for that telltale reaction to being trusted with a secret. He'd been an extremely eager cub when it came to that sort of thing, even when he was half a year old. She seemed a lot more mature than he was at that age, though. Where he would have been practically wiggling to know a secret, she was more composed.

Still, she did want to know, and he flapped his left ear conspiratorially. He wouldn't so openly tell anyone else, but Towhee would understand. She wouldn't see it as a weakness like others of his family would have back then. Besides, it might help her to know she wasn't (completely) alone, though he wouldn't discredit her by thinking they were anything alike for it. She was the stronger by far. He couldn't imagine being totally deaf. "I can't hear a thing outta this ear. Never have."