Jack clearly relaxes, too, as Shadow's body language settles down. He doesn't completely forget that there's a person in front of him who clearly lost some of his faculties, but this is very promising! "You are a very handsome bird person," he says, friendly but not showing teeth still, just in case, "but I imagine you would rather be yourself, whoever that is. My own experience with it is it just happens, but that might not, er, work here."
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