She stops short again. (Sorry, she does this. They might make it to the buffet eventually.) Different universes? Different universes? And he's never seen a... well, it's true winged Companions are rare. That's the whole point, and why she'd been turned into one in the first place. But... he's acting like she's just a person with wings. Who gives a Companion a compliment to their face like that? He should be telling this to her owner, not her. He shouldn't even be caring enough to give her his name.

Maybe... Maybe she can try the parrot technique--that's what Damien calls it-- to see how Palamedes reacts. Some Companions are capable of learning to say a few words without it raising too many eyebrows.

"Thank you," she says in a purposefully stilted accent, made more convincing by how dry her throat is. "Me...Linnet."