Sees and hears through familiar

My familiar was too far away to get a better look at the fine details, but this seemed to be Tattletale, and she had, actually, come in civilian clothes. I pursed my lips in my real body, then commanded my bird to get in closer. It made another half circuit of the street, then swooped down, and as it came to her, the girl lifted up one hand in offering, so I ordered it to perch itself on her outstretched finger.

“Hey there, little guy,” she said quietly, still grinning. “Or girl? No, neither, huh? You must be Apocrypha’s.”

She had green eyes, I noticed, deep, bottle green eyes. There was a smattering of freckles across her nose and under her eyes, where they would have been hidden by her mask, last night. Her hair, now that my familiar was close enough to see, was done in a loose braid. She was…actually really pretty. The kind of girl Emma would have hung around with.

As my familiar quirked its head to one side in a distinctly avian manner, Tattletale gently lifted her hand up and started examining it from other angles.

“You’re made of crystal,” she muttered. “Not diamond — hell, that would be expensive — not glass, not sapphire… Maybe quartz? That still doesn’t seem right, though…”

She let her hand lower back down and stared at me…at my familiar directly in the eyes. The grin took on a somewhat embarrassed tilt and she gave a rueful chuckle.

“And you can hear me, can’t you, Apocrypha?”

In my real body, I startled, but my familiar didn’t move at all. Reeling from the surprise, I had to sit there for several long seconds and wonder: How the hell did she know?

“Or maybe you can’t?”

The words drew me back to her, and when I refocused on my familiar’s sight, Tattletale had leaned in closer, frowning.

“I’m pretty sure you can see me, at least,” she said. “This thing doesn’t have any vocal cords, so I doubt it can give an oral report when you call it back. Plus, it’s got no personality, no real…intelligence. Just enough to move and take orders, right? On the other hand, powers are pretty bullshit…”