For a second, he thinks she's laughing at him, but he quickly realizes that she probably doesn't know much about hawk biology. He hadn't, before he'd become stuck. He shifts his weight between his legs, debating with himself about whether or not telling her would make her sad -- and he doesn't want to make her sad, but...

<I guess it's not easy to imagine, but hawks don't have taste buds. So when I turn human, everything is kind of overwhelming. Taste is the part that's really, really good. It's my favorite part about going human,> and there wasn't a whole lot he liked about being human, even though the train was obviously designed for them and his life would be a lot easier if he was one, right now.