I pulled a lock of my hair and began recalling what I remembered of the human pantheon. They had to have a god related to birds.
But dodos?
There were plenty of birds—dragons!—stories about which Explanatory gathered from humans and sent to me through the telepathic chain. But all of them were flying ones.
In a place like this kingdom, birds like dodos would've been easily turned extinct by one of the many massive predators. Only bees could not fear them, because we were tiny and painful insects!
'If I want to make humans accept Dalmanrach as a legit god, I will have to make up his legend from scratch,' I realized. 'And explain to people who the hell were dodos. Hm. Should I describe my Earth's version or this Earth's version? On Earth-Omega-0048 an ordinary dodo will be closer to feathered lizards than to dragons… I guess it wouldn't matter, as long as it stays a dodo. A big, silly birb…'
