Julien dips his big head and brings it down to touch his beak to the tea's surface. He can drink like that, using his beak like a straw, though that will still leave some at the bottom of the cup. "You're very kind! I really should leave you with a sample, though. More incentive to try and find me later!"

He's had some kind of power or ability for making himself harder to notice for a while, but it seems like since arriving here it's been gone. It's as easy as it logically should be to see him now.

"So, I should tell you now that I was born featherless and with five-fingered hands, and I grew teeth. I was human. I'm telling you I'm human still, even with all this." This gem thing. It's kind of horrifying if he thinks about it - he only breathes and has a beating heart out of basically habit - so he tries not to think about it too much.