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Kaiser had been quite content to sit and stew in his thoughts for a while, as all the other answers and associated responses washed over him. That glazed look which was reserved mostly for lessons at school was back, as he stared off into the middle distance.
It was the warning that had drawn Kaiser's attention again, snapped his focus right back to the professor - he was, after all, finely attuned to the tone in a person's voice. Kaiser was slightly slow on the uptake - it had been an unexpected request, especially given Kaiser was not exactly known for his ability to identify magical birds - but had nevertheless started to bring his hands to his ears... when the bird started to scream.
Kaiser stared at it as a jumble of backwards voices poured from the creature's open beak, his own among them. He realised, then, what it was, and what it was doing. A Jobberknoll, doing its terrible end of life scream. Kaiser's hands, which had been hovering near his head as though he'd been about to press them over his ears, lowered again, and he clenched his fists in his lap instead. He kept watching the Jobberknoll, forced his eyes to stay trained to it.
It broke his heart, and he didn't want to look at it at all, didn't want to think about it, but he made himself. Kaiser would not look away. He wouldn't cover his ears, even though the sound drilled into his brain - was that the screeching of other birds? - and shook him to his core. It deserved to be heard and seen, so Kaiser would hear the bird's cry and he would see its final moments, even though it hurt.
Even though it hurt.
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