I doubt you can afford to be that picky.

[Finally lets go of the feather, blowing it away with a puff of breath.]

Forbidden? Clanless? You laguz must be real monsters, to talk about casting off children like that. Let me tell you something... my parents abandoned me as a child. I was left in the slums of Nohr to fend for myself. I had no one to trust... I barely survived, and I had to do truly wretched things to get by. Killing me would have been kinder than abandonment.