There was no missing the fact that her idea had positively delighted him. Well, she'd consider that a win, then. The unspoken tension hadn't sat well on her shoulders. "I'll be happy to," she answered genuinely.
There was a tick of silence after his statement, and she peered at him through the bush. "Was that a pun?" she queried, with a hint of laughter in her voice. She straightened back up and came back out from behind the shrubbery. "Sometimes I swear from the way she eyes me that she's just waiting for me to turn back into a bird so she can strike. I know it's foolish, it's just." She paused for a beat, before concluding, "shifty."