Teru shrugged, digging in his schoolbag. "My grandma liked them. I'd be careful about touching it too much, though. Hold on, I have some hand sanitizer..."

While the boys chatted about ID, Tome was trying to line up a shot of the bird with her camera. It was one she borrowed nicely and didn't at all swipe for the purposes of documenting random phenomena from her dad, so of course she totally knew how to use it inside and out and she wasn't struggling with getting the focus right when--

SHRIEK

Tome had been zoomed in on the bird's mouth when it let out a wail just like a human child's and she screamed too.

"D-don't eat me! PLEASE! This body is so tiny! It won't even keep you fed for A DAAAAAY!" The bird curled up into a feathery ball in Mob's palms.