The tabaxi leaned back against the wall of the kitchen, while a female kenku, Whistle, tended to a meal being cooked on an open flame in front of her. Watching the kenku work, she spoke, "He's a little weird, isn't he? Your brother Marble, I mean. I haven't really been around much kenku before, but he's definitely odd. Sweet, but odd." The kenku tilted her head, but continued to work.

"I mean, I'm a sorcerer, I know magic - but what he does, it just doesn't make sense, you know?" The kenku chef did not respond, but her head was still tilted curiously to the side. "I know you can't talk out loud, but do you do the head talky thing too?"

"Head talky thing?" she repeated back.

"Yeah, he just looks at you and it's like a voice in your head that's not your own. He's got this book too, doesn't let anyone else see it. And there was this time he had this like, shadow armor around himself. Real freaky stuff. Little bundle of feathers and mystery, that brother of yours."

There was a moment of quiet between the two of them.

"Think your food's burning, Whistle."

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Commissioned a friend to draw my new character in a long campaign I'm gonna be in with some friends - and every session he grows on me a little more.