I inquired because I needed to understand.

"I came to shatter your preconceptions," she replied with a wisdom that took me off-guard.

"You belong in the far east," I protested with deepening interest.

"Exactly," she said.

"How did you get here?"

"I don't know," she conceded. "I just started flying one day and, seeing no borders from the sky, I just kept flying until I was drawn to you. A little voice whispered in my ear that you were a bit too certain of yourself and you needed a visit from me."

"I think you might have taken care of that," I sighed, completely unperturbed by the reality that I was having a two way conversation with an aviary creature and still processing the geopolitical implications of its immigration status.