Heron Lake Plateau not looking for a confession

Well, Phox could probably guess where Owen got his talkativeness. And he didn't think it was from Raven. The boy rambled on just like his father, and Phox was left mentally scratching his head with all the "oh"s and "ah"s and questions the boy put on him one after another. Maybe all kids were like this, though. Now there was a thought that certainly frightened Phox, who had never been a particularly chatty wolf. What if all his kids ended up like this? Then again, if he, Camilla, and Towhee raised them, that seemed unlikely.

He decided to ignore the part about who ranked where, if only because Phox felt he had a perfectly reasonable place in the pack, and he had no drive to be a leader. At least not for now. The most impressive part about Owen was his fluency with ptero, which Phox answered in with ease. -Towhee's brother, too. No relation to X. I'm not even sure where that bird came from. Towhee probably pooped it out one day out of pure necessity.- Phox hoped that would get back to Towhee.