I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's- More, like a person than a bird? I says. Yeah, she says. That's it. Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it.

Moira Young
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A young girl, who is not even aware that she is talking to a person like a bird, says that the person is smarter than any human. This person, her father, does not want his daughter to tell this man that he is smarter than people. He has an idea of the bird-person's intelligence and does not want it rivaled. When she says that he is like a person, he says that he is like a bird because he does not know how to speak human language.

Source: Blood Red Road

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