[ SOOOO CUTE. She beams! She's not normally one to indulge someone if their head is getting big, but she has a soft spot for birds in particular, and this one is friendly and has a lot of personality. ]

"Witch?" [ She looks back at Hunter and sets her hand on her hip, the other still holding up her staff. ] That sounds like something a mage would do in our world, although I've never heard of carving a familiar before before, but we do make our own mage's staff.

[ She turns her staff a little, smiling wider. ]

Ambrosia took seven years for me to weave. I'd be devastated if we were separated.