Phoenix Maplewood nobody with a body can reach ya

The dudes are the pretty ones, Tavi hastily added when she noticed Saena's hesitation. They have colored heads and bright wing feathers, while the ladies are all brown like tree bark. The ones I've been tracking recently are really big and fat, probably loaded with eggs and building nests somewhere in the forest. It was kind of... Energizing, if that was the right word, that Tavi could be helpful like this. Even just passing on a few bits and pieces of bird-related information made her feel genuinely good. Finally, someone who didn't think it was weird to collect feathers and bird heads! Well, that's probably still weird, but she wasn't going to bring that up to Saena -- that was a friend thing, and their relationship was more like a working relationship, for now.

The boy birds are bigger, just like with us and.. A lot of other animals. We'd probably end up with more meat if we went for one of thos- as she explained, there was a call that caught in her ears; it seemed to originate a good distance from them around a copse of trees, or perhaps in the tangled bushes beyond them. Tavi stopped abruptly and when Saena was closer, muttered, I think that was a pheasant. The call itself had been short and quick, like the bird was crowing a quick ah-hah through a voice distortion machine. If Saena wanted to scare up some birds, now was the chance.