Redtail Rise they really think it can't get any worse

to her credit, towhee tries to read the woman's lips as she speaks.

but she fails miserably.

because she is trying to jump right into lip reading without much prior experience at it.

she hesitates, brain rapid-firing as she tries to think of a way to communicate that she can't hear without signing it in ptero, which is her default.

she reaches up to paw at her ear and then shake her head in the universal sign of 'no': i do not hear she communicates; as tumbleweed had done when first trying to communicate with her.