Redsand Canyon Fading like a flower.

Perhaps because she’d been rudely awoken in the middle of a nap and now stood here feeling like a sack of crap, Kallik’s words earned a grumpy look from her. No matter how poorly she felt, she wasn’t going to take Rue’s food. And she would’ve found his patronizing funny any other day, but right now it mostly just made her even crankier.

But surely he meant well, so Towhee set her jaw and quipped petulantly, You’re not the boss of me, and then waited to see if he might improve her day a little bit with an amusing reaction.