"How would you not want to fly?" asks Nika. "You're a bird. Birds can fly. ...Bar we need a firebirds book too. And a unicorns book."

There are no published books about unicorns.

"Huh. Why not?"

Perhaps they are particularly uncommon.

"Huh. Okay, but we do need a firebirds book."

She gets her firebirds book.

"...And the whole rest of that series? Please Linyabel?"

"You aren't going to break my budget with an entire libraryful of books, little one."

"Okay so all of the series of the history of whatever."

Nika receives her requested books. And returns to incredulity at her cousin. "Why don't you want to fly?"

"I don't know, I just, I want to be a human," says Tiny Firebird Ivan.