Bramblepoint dry eyes, it's no surprise

he was family, boasting of a close familiarity with her mother.

it isn't entirely enough for towhee to let her guard down in it's entirety, but she relaxes visibly. anyone could claim they were family, and though she was liable to believe him due to the fact that he was using ptero to sign to her, she couldn't help her instinctual predisposition towards distrust.

at the telling that her mother lived many places, towhee makes a low huff borne of contemplation.

-no,- she signs in response to his question about the caldera. though something about the word triggers some sort of hazy memory, it is not one that towhee can latch onto or make any sort of sense of.

-maybe i'll live a lot of places too.- admittedly, she'd been angry at her mother for leaving her and sable, but now that she's tasted adventure on her own ... she thinks she might like exploring, even if it posed plenty of risks for her in particular.