Sunspire Mountains Professor Universe

Towhee did her best to follow the latest monologue, equally comical and tiresome. Eventually, she had no choice but to close her eyes and miss the latter half of it just trying to convince her eyeballs not to spontaneously combust.

When she reopened them, she caught the last handful of words: “—because that involves murder!” Where had this child come from? She was a Blackthorn, of that much Towhee was dead certain, but she wasn’t quite like her meek and mild predecessors. Maybe she really was channeling Finley.

Look, I appreciate your clever wittiness or witty cleverness, whatever, Towhee said, but if you don’t want this, then I’m afraid I’m going to have to pack it up and take it to someone else. She leveled the spindly stranger with a weighty gaze. Do you have any actual business here, or are you just rambling like that mouth of yours? she wondered without malice.