[If that's trying to make him feel better . . . well okay it kind of sucks but honestly he'll take what he can get right now that isn't being laughed at. You win this round, awkward reassurance.

He makes a face, though, first at Rinne and then at the bird, his tongue curling out past his teeth for a moment.]

It ain't the first one I've seen. Why, you worried about endangered species or somethin'? Maybe they should've thought o' that before they started following humans around!