Crow hearing plus cat hearing.
Hmm... I can weave it in, actually. I was just kinda strapped for ideas...
I've got it. I'll leave the treehouse and its startled occupants and start running like heck from there, and then go into a flashback which explains some things but not all, and then I suppose at some point I'm gonna run into one of the other characters on their own accord, since considering my current position, it would be a bad idea if I ran into one of them myself. Will this work? Hope so. I'll just wait for your reply.
By the way, they threw him out of the castle for asking the wrong questions. What questions? That'll be revealed later.