Togusa can't help but smile, despite how very strange this all is. "I suppose they can't fly, unless they've all got their wings clipped?"

Kwe-kweh. "You can't possibly understand me, can you?" Togusa looks at the bird sideways, before turning his full attention back to Iris.

"But where could they have come from? I've got to trust my instinct and the idea that something else was here before, instead of what everybody else is telling me."