Chapter 56: The dragon mother, part 2
"I'll give you grain if you shut up," Nikola bargained. The bird kept on singing. It was a fine tune, but it was repetitive. It was almost like the raptor wanted him out of the barrel, so it could perch on him again.
"I'll build you a bird bath," the bird stopped to regard Nikola as if it were considering it. Nikola raised an eyebrow. "You are not a normal bird, are you?"
The bird begins to chirp quickly as if setting out to tell him something, and then it began to fly over his head. He snatched it from the air and stared into its eyes.
There was no trace of a human's level of intelligence, so that ruled out someone transforming a human into a bird. Perhaps someone had attempted to make this bird smarter instead?