Blackfoot Forest The simorgh sleeps on velvet tongues

Hawkeye's eyes dropped and Pied felt her concern grow. When her dark cohort looked up again, meeting her gaze, her heartbeat quickened. Pied intuited that Hawkeye was about to tell her something both personal and important. She nodded her head slightly as if to encourage Hawkeye to continue; she was listening.

She didn't expect the revelation that came from her friend's lips. She froze for a moment, deliberating what this meant. Honestly, Hawkeye could've used deductive logic to conclude that she and Koontz were cousins. Even the Omega, Cuan, had probably figured it out. However, due to her own predilections, Pied didn't doubt Hawkeye even for a moment.

"You hear it in your bad ear... so maybe it's not an actual audible voice at all?" Pied questioned. "Does it sound familiar? Like, do you know who the voice belongs to?" she wondered, her lack of skepticism indicating to Hawkeye that Pied certainly believed her. Whether it was an actual supernatural phenomenon or a simple auditory hallucination remained to be seen, though.