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#PennedPossibilities 451 — Picture This: Your MC befriends a little bird who sits on their windowsill every morning. What do they name him or her? What type of bird are they?

I don't have to "picture" it. Befriending animals is exactly what gets Wintereyes in to her current trouble. Thus far, the only birds she's tried are crows because they're often around wolves. She befriended wolves first, and wolves produce carrion, so... But, crows are so smart that they realize her gift is both a gift and a curse. They caw and taunt and fly away when they see her. Now that she attends university and lives in a dorm instead of a forest, it'll probably be something that frequents the campus. She even has a window! Would it be a pidgin or a dove, or maybe a wren? Wrens are like the mice of the sky, everywhere, seeing everything. She knows this from experience with mice. She'd never name him or her, though. Befriending always lets her "friends" talk to her. Oddly enough, animals don't particularly appreciate humans naming them (if they understand naming in the first place). They universally find it insulting and feel it mistakes their true natures.

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