Earn the nest

Nico really did enjoy making himself sound smart when telling Jack about things the pup didn’t know about.  Seeing the focus and surprise on Jack’s face about the nest just helped swell that inner ego.  Then of all things, Cal surprised him with being more interested in the feathers than the eggs.  Well, each to their own.

Nico clearly thought about his stomach a lot.  With Jack’s suggestion the pup takes the egg in his mouth, flips it in the air and when it comes down easily snaps it in his mouth, cracking the shell in between his teeth. “’s still gooy’sh.  Goo turnin into birds is so weird n cool.”  Another two chomps and the egg, shell and all, was gone.

“Uh, sure.  Maybe take some of that net-like stuff and make a strip of it to wrap around ya?  Put the feathers on that.  So like your paw or neck?” Nico scrunches his forehead considering the suggestion, “net is too thick though.  Can you use skinny vines to ma—” an idea occurs, “oh oh I bet I can find some vines on a bush that’ll be really small and the bush vines also grow more smaller vine near the big vine that maybe you could use to keep the feathers on it, uhm, somehow.  We could figure it out.”  Nico wasn’t sure how but hey there were always more feathers if they messed up the first one.  "Echo can probably do it, he can make nests like the other birds after all."

"Niko"