She's been getting used to people recoiling at the sight of her, but it's magnified, made comical, by Rose actually falling over and having such voluminous hair and elaborate skirts. To her own surprise, Toby wants to laugh. She clamps her beak shut on that reaction, but it's there - and there's still an image of her parents rinsing dark blood off of each other after a raid playing, still an unkindness to the whine of the wind and the rattle of the foliage, but she manages to recenter.

"So am I." She curls her tail, rests some of her weight back on it. It's probably better to clarify. "My people are from elsewhere, but I was born on Earth. My name is Toby Hamee. We should escape this place. Cutting through the side of the tunnel would make things worse, do you agree?"