Big Salmon Lake The wreckoning.

"You ate them all, didn’t you?"

Nothing got by this lady, huh? Alivia had clearly picked the wrong person to try to take for a ride. 

"..But there’s nothing left, is there?"

Alivia caught herself smiling sheepishly, and she waved her tail like a white banner of surrender. She opened her mouth to speak. She may have been about to cop to her lies, or she may have been about to double down and spin even more nonsense. The world will never know, because Towhee chose that moment to give her name, and it changed everything.  

Alivia's mouth went dry, and her feet began to sweat. 

"...Aun Tee?" she asked incredulously, her voice small. 

She probably shouldn't have been so surprised. She had known that Towhee lived around here. That was the entire reason Alivia had come here, after all. 

"You're supposed to be deaf!" she spoke again, her voice much stronger this time and with an accusing edge.