That gets a curious head tilt, and a slightly confused blink and then One abruptly goes back to sniffing around the room, as though some invisible switch had been flipped.

She'll hang out for a few minutes, then, if he seems okay with it. She wants to make sure he's figured out the new food before she goes to eat her own meal.

He seems, perhaps, a little unsettled by her presence, but again, he does a good job of hiding it, and after a few minutes, does in fact come to the new food. He darts a look at her, before sniffing at it, and nibbling cautiously at it.

"Good boy," she comments as he takes his first nibble, and then goes off to her room to eat.

She checks again before bedtime to see how much he's eaten, and freshens up the bowl before she heads back to town in the morning.

He's eaten some, but probably nowhere near as much as he should've - although a couple of the treat balls, and one of the catapillars seem to have been eaten.

Well, possibly she just hasn't figured out what he ought to be eating yet. She gets a variety of things in town - a bale of hay and a couple of armfuls of fresh-cut grass, some oats, one each of a few different kinds of fruit and vegetables, and a few different kinds of meat. She stops several times on the way home to cut branches off of different bushes, too, to see if he's interested in the leaves Rogeiros had him on as at least part of his diet.

She checks on him and his food dish first thing when she gets back, bringing a head of lettuce up with her when she does.

He's curled in the nest, and watches her as she comes in. The food bowl is a little emptier again, but still not by much.

"-sweetie," she sighs, and pulls off a lettuce leaf to offer him.

He hesitates for a moment, and then creeps forward to sniff at the lettuce leaf. And after a long moment where it very much feels like he's watching for her reaction, he nibbles at the edge of the leaf.

She stays very still, holding it for him, even when Figment flaps down from her shoulder to take a treat ball from the bowl.

He flinches a little when Figment moves, freezing for a moment before going back to eating. He'll finish most of the leaf before retreating.

Not great, but it could be worse and she'll get nowhere by pushing it. She leaves the lettuce by the bowl and goes to get the rest of the things put away.

Figment stays, however, busy with her treat.

One watches Figment for a while, before creeping slightly closer to her, extending his neck towards her to sniff her.

She makes a soft trilling sound when his breath disturbs the fur of her flank.

He flinches back when she trills, crouching down and making himself smaller.

She continues eating for a few seconds, then turns to look at him.

He's retreated a little more and tucked himself into a ball, half watching her.

She takes another treat ball out of the bowl and bats it toward him.

His head comes up, and one paw catches the treat ball. He rolls it around slightly, and almost bats it back, and instead...bends down to eat it.

Good. She settles down to watch him.

Deka comes back a few minutes later; not into the room, but she's audible in the kitchen, putting things away. Figment pads out to see her, returning shortly with Phantasm, who trots up to One. "Hi."

One tilts his head, watches them, seems to check where Deka is.

"Hi," he echoes, a sound that could almost be considered a chirp rather than a word.

He freezes in startlement for a brief moment before fluffing out his feathers. "You talk?" (He's quieter, though maybe not as quiet as One might like.)

One makes a gesture that is probably a shrug, looking startled, almost as though he hadn't anticipated making the sound. "Yes?"