Hideaway Strath Vapnatak.

"Wow, that's brilliant," of all the possible explanations she had had in mind, Towhee being deaf had been somewhere at the bottom of the box called "Miscellaneous". A second later she realized that she might have come off as rude unintentionally and felt that she should explain: "Not that you are deaf, of course, but this!" She flailed with her paws and almost falled down again.

"So, how does it work?" she asked, suddenly in no hurry to go anywhere, her eyes alight with curiousity and willingness to learn. "The wing language."