It still bugged Lennon that Simms' son of all people was here, but he just tried to avoid the kid. Wasn't his fault his dad had been a psychopath. It was spectacularly awful that They'd bring someone to live where his own father had been killed, but on the other hand he couldn't have said he was all that surprised.
Felix's joke about swinging made him think again about the whole Chase, Kiley and Tobias thing, but he pushed that aside. This afternoon was for him and he wasn't dwelling on anything that would bring him down. "I knew something was missing from my sex life," he said, deadpan. "Handcuffs." Although the thought of Felix cuffed up definitely did something for him. He snickered at the description Felix offered. "Yeah, think I'll pass on that one too."
He was working on the owl's face and feathers and randomly asked, "Did you know a lot of owls have really long legs under all those feathers?"