I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to draw Kraal’s hands right in that first panel. Did you ever stop to think about how a bird’s hands would work in an anthro world? Do they have bones in their fingers? Do they have… fingers?? What are you looking at me for…? …Oh, I guess I’m the one who’s supposed to answer that question.

The truth is, while I have fun creating Q&A pages that appear between chapters, I haven’t figured out every answer to *every *world-building question. Does Dil have teeth? He does in this last panel. Kraal does too on an earlier page. But they only have them when they’re grinning or otherwise gritting their “teeth” in order to convey an emotion. So do feathered characters have “hands” and “fingers”? The honest to goodness truth is, I don’t know. If I were creating a story that was more dependent on the nitty gritty details that would make the world as realistic as possible, I’d put more thought into little details like this. As it is though, Aww, Feathers! is more about relationships and lived experience as seen through the lens of a multi-species society. Given that emphasis, it’s okay to let some minor details go unexamined and unchallenged for the sake of making things easier to draw and less distracting for the reader.