"Let's go exploring, then! I think I saw a waterfall earlier."

"Sounds fun!"

Waterfall: is massive, spilling down over rocks embedded with little crystals, catching the light perfectly.

"Wow, shiny!" She flies around admiring it from several angles. There's a space behind it she can't quite fit in, but Silv could if they wanted.

Silv does, in fact, squeeze back there, laughing.

"There's some cool rocks in here, want me to bring out samples?" they call.

"Ooh, sure!"

Rocks! They've got interesting bands and colors and little flecks of something glimmering.

"These are pretty. Maybe when I'm not in debt I should look into getting a cool paint job."

"You'd be extra pretty with something like that, yeah!"

"How much does your shapeshifting let you change that sort of thing? Like, when you're a bird, can you be any kind of bird? Or a kind that doesn't exist, like a blue cardinal or something?"

"Yes to both! There's some stuff I can't do - gotta be organic basically? As far as I can tell."

"That's really cool." Being inorganic is so much better, honestly, but de gustibus non est disputandum.

"Could you be a dragon?"

"I can be dragon-shaped! Breathing fire's hard, and I need to pay attention to being actually aerodynamic if I want to fly - the forms themselves aren't magic - but, yeah. I usually like having fur a bit more than scales, but the variety's nice. Probably could be a furry dragon actually..."

"That sounds bizzare but also adorable. I like being armor-plated, it feels so safe and clean."

"I can see that! I like being soft. I think we have a bit of time, wanna see me play around with my shapeshifting?"

"Definitely!"

They morph into a fluffy wolf with fluffy feathered wings, fur in grey, wings shading from grey to green.

"Ohhhhh my gosh that's adorable. And super cool." She does not ask to pet them because that would be impolite but she definitely has to decide not to ask.

"I know! I'm fluffy!" They flutter their wings, bouncing a little.

"You are fluffy! Can you fly like that? It looks a bit unbalanced."

"Not really efficiently! Body plan's pretty similar to a vulture in terms of weight to wingspan, so taking off's hard, but it's possible."

"That's honestly really impressive in, like, a constrained-optimization way."

They laugh. "Thanks! And, yeah, had to get a real sense of air stuff before I could fly effectively..."

"That makes sense. One day I'm going to know enough engineering to be able to design and build a body like the one I've got."

"Neat. That sounds like an awesome ambition."

"It might well take me more than a human lifetime to get that good. So, good thing I'm not human."