The way she says it, Tobias can almost believe it. Breaking free of expectations and buying your own starter castle sounds like literal magic -- which he supposes fits Evie like a crown. She seems so hopeful that he can't even bring himself to burst that particular bubble for her, so instead of giving her the laundry list of reasons that can't work, he just shifts his talons on the seat.

<Maybe,> he replies. <I haven't been around humans this much in a long time,> so he didn't exactly know what he wanted to be, anyway. Not in terms that would make sense to a human. He'd been perfectly fine in his meadow, living as a hawk, even if the hawk body was starting to grow old.