[He's such a bird-person he hasn't even got any weird mammalian vestigial bits like nipples or a navel. Comparative anatomy!]

I am no mage at it, but I have brushed human hair often enough, and been honored once or twice with currying a great-wolf for her orc. What I do not understand, I will ask about.

[He studies the erune's head and ears carefully, already knowing the answer before he asks,] You have an undercoat I must be careful of?