"Wind dukes? Never heard of them...Kenku are flightless, though? Dude! That sucks!" Because Renee knew the joy of flight, even if it wasn't exactly the type of flight that birds experienced. But she'd always felt a little sorry for birds like emu, ostriches, and kiwi. The first two were probably too big to safely fly--even herons were smaller--but the kiwi just suffered being not aerodynamic...

"Tell you what, the next time we get on a planet, I'll take you for a spin. A flight, okay? You deserve it." Just because he looked like a bird. It was enough for her, and she was...for some reason, Renee was feeling generous. So what the hell. Right??

"I'm using a mutant power. You're an actual being, a kenku. Not like...a mutant or anything, right? Therefore what we're doing is probably different. Similar, but not the same." Some sort of kinesis, though, Renee was sure.