Hello Pretty Bird

While sitting down and taking a break from inspecting the palace guard, Lord Derkontaru is suddenly accosted by an Aizvaryan crested dove that starts chirping at him "Hello! Pretty bird!"

(On a side note: Since Aizvarya is a fantasy realm anyway, what they call a "crested dove" we in the real world would taxonomically classify as a cockatiel. There are no other parrot-type species in Aizvarya, so the people long ago associated them with other true doves and pigeons. The crested doves make up a communication network that stretches across the entire empire; they are used much like carrier pigeons were used in the real world.)