Raven's Watch Royal Eclipse

"That's simple mathematics," Birk replied without hesitation. "Say - if you look at me and know that I am "un-tree-like", then a thing that is not like me is... tree-like?" That did not sound logical at all, therefore he closed his mouth shut, looked up in the sky for a bit, thinking about the matter in depth.

"Scratch that. Let's try again," he still had not come up with a good explanation, but he decided just to work his way through the problem by going on talking. "I will think about it, but, while I do that, maybe you have ideas, hm?"