Aligoté huffed a little, but she was right. "I know," he grumbled. "Just hasn't been high on the list of things that needed lookin' after. 'Sides, it's hard to get them right without a mirror or someone else helpin', I wasn't an owl before I got changed, I'm sure not one now."

That leads him to another train of thought briefly before he returns to recounting Aquavitae. "You sure this half-Featherfolk story is going to work? I mean, half-anima ain't so weird once you've met anima, but I got the feeling it happens less here."