Redhawk Caldera Creature, hold your tongue.

Her eyes narrowed when Reyes said something she couldn't quite follow. She'd pretty much forgotten about his fall, so she chalked it up to a bad lipreading due to talking with his mouth full. He paused, then continued speaking more slowly, making it a lot easier for Towhee to make sense of what he was saying. Still, there was some stammering in there that made her frown a little as she suddenly remembered his accident.

"Hey, you okay...?" Towhee asked with a blink, moving closer. He'd seemed more or less fine in the interim, certainly physically. But was his noggin still a little addled by that tumble? "You must be a little fucked in the head if you think I'm the type to take a man's name," she quipped, revealing that she'd caught his meaning despite his halting verbalization.

The Sovereign's eyes glowed as she touched her nose to the hardness of his cheekbone, just beneath his left eye. "How about you take my name, huh?" Only after saying that out loud did Towhee look past the jokes to realize what exactly they were implying. Her white-streaked shoulders suddenly tensed and her eyes widened a fraction, a nervous little toot escaping her.