How Green Becomes Wood

After the lettuce was eaten, Dark lifted Ivy and helped Daizi to her feet to lead them out.

"Am I misremembering, or were you wanting to visit the aviary?" Daizi asked Alec, "I thought I remembered someone talking about it."
 
"I totally want to see the birds!" Alec chirped. "Milo has a pair of... little ones, I forget what they are called, and they are so cute! I want to see more."

"Don't forget the penguins," Xander said, checking his feet just in case.

"We'll just try to see it all," Alec said with a grin as he led the way toward what he hoped was their next destination.
 
"The sign said they'd be feeding the penguins here in a little while, so if we loop around the bird section and go back through the penguins, we should be able to see them being fed," Xander explained. "Plus, if we loop through the birds toward the penguins, it's the fastest way to get to the big cats."
 
"It was posted on one of the signs around the enclosure," Xander told him.

The bird section was noisy and very feathery. Alec was absolutely in love with the birds, but he quickly realized birds were a pet he'd rather visit than own. Not to mention Kiki would love having a bird around. He had a lot of fun showing Ivy the birds and telling her all about them as he read off the information signs.

Xander found the birds overstimulating. He still had trouble communicating the fact that he was overstimulated when he was overstimulated, so he mostly just shut down and fell silent. He was trying not to be distracting for the rest of his family. Ivy seemed to be enjoying herself, and the birds had to be more fun for his mother since she could hear them. He was looking forward to being done with the birds.
 
Daizi did like the birds, especially when they were in a fly flying room and felt one pass by her. It wasn't overstimulating for Dark, but he didn't love the free-flight rooms because it filled him with fear that a bird would come and defecate on him.

Ivy did enjoy them, but her enjoyment was mostly just pointing and saying, "Bird!"
 
Eventually, they made it out of the bird room and passed by the penguins, where the keepers had just started feeding them. There was a crowd, so it was hard to see anything, but they were able to watch a few of the penguins being fed before moving on toward the big cat area.
 
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