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"Okay," Towhee interrupted him in the middle of his tirade, her tone edging toward a snap, "all right. I get it, you don't want to do it. Don't know why you're felt the need to go off on me about this shit." And it quite frankly irritated her, mostly because he'd shat on Phox out of goddamn nowhere. The rest of his rant was mostly irrelevant to the subject too. Yet, despite herself, some of what he'd said stuck in her brain.

Grinding her teeth impatiently, Towhee drew in a breath, then sighed it back out. "You're not under any obligation to do anything. Neither am I. But I thought I'd ask. Didn't realize it'd cause a tirade." But now she spoke without any heat. And she couldn't help but ask, "Phox attacked you? Really?" How had she not heard about this? Oh yeah, because she's deaf.