Talk:Pretty Bird/@comment-10502460-20190625030616

I've been reading through a lot of your stories, and this so far is the one that has come closest to giving me classic creeps. The setup and narrative is really well done, however, the way you described the bird's intelligence makes it initially seem like you the author may not be aware that it's not normal for a parrot to be able to hold actual conversations, rather than the narrator simply not realizing it. I'm not sure how I would do it differently myself since acknowledging it directly could detract from the subtly as mentioned by Banned in CP, but I feel like there should be just a *little bit more there to indicate that Petey having full conversations is also supposed to be part of the creepiness and not just the creepy things he later says. Maybe have the narrator be just a little tipsy at the party and thus having it go over their head initially.