[ Tobias remembers his manners a few moments late, hops down to a branch closer to Cassian's eye level so he doesn't need to crane his neck and squint up into the branches like that. Of course, Tobias had been able to see him perfectly from where he'd been perched, but he knows he ought to have pity on this man's comparatively feeble eyes.
He takes the news that he is probably just hallucinating pretty well. Then again, it's easy for Tobias to hide his emotions. One of the benefits (but is it really a benefit?) to being a hawk full-time. Still, he rustles his feathers, and admits: ]
A shrew.
[ It's a more complicated answer than it might sound: with it, Tobias is admitting that Cassian might be right, that he may be compromised the same way some of the others stranded here had been. Exposing weakness is always, always, always a risk. He was also admitting that he is not just pretending to be a bird: that he hunts animals, eats them. That he is a predator. And it is that part of him that gives him the sharpness and courage for his next question. ]
What do you know about me?
[ Is it the berries making him paranoid? Maybe. But Tobias wants to know just how much Marco and Ax had revealed about him to this man. ]
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He takes the news that he is probably just hallucinating pretty well. Then again, it's easy for Tobias to hide his emotions. One of the benefits (but is it really a benefit?) to being a hawk full-time. Still, he rustles his feathers, and admits: ]
A shrew.
[ It's a more complicated answer than it might sound: with it, Tobias is admitting that Cassian might be right, that he may be compromised the same way some of the others stranded here had been. Exposing weakness is always, always, always a risk. He was also admitting that he is not just pretending to be a bird: that he hunts animals, eats them. That he is a predator. And it is that part of him that gives him the sharpness and courage for his next question. ]
What do you know about me?
[ Is it the berries making him paranoid? Maybe. But Tobias wants to know just how much Marco and Ax had revealed about him to this man. ]