[Right on the money. Pamela was self-conscious, devoid of confidence, always looking to other people to tell her how to be - how to act, how to dress, what to say. Ivy does not take advice. If other people take issue with her, that's their problem, not hers.]

It used to be a rosefinch. Now it's in a classification of its own. [She lets it flutter over to Raven, landing on her shoulder.] Hybridising animals with plant DNA allows me to communicate with them.