Kes looked surprised.
"I don't think you should live on worms," she said, trying not to picture eating them. "I mean, I'm sure they're very nutritious, as well as the seeds, but still, it can't really fill you when you change to human again." 
Kes had always liked birds though. She could mimmick quite a few birds, thanks to her father. When they were little, it was the one thing he used to like to do with them. It was a favourite thing of hers when she was in the woods near her home.
Thinking about this made her a little sad, so she tried to put it from her mind.
"Besides, we have enough to share, and it's the least I can do," she added. "There's not much use to me I'm afraid."
She didn't know why she said it, but now she'd said it, she found that was what was bugging her. She'd left home without really thinking Jube would have followed, and now he was having to deal with all this stuff. Before, she had protect him, but he didn't need her for that anymore. From what he'd said, he hadn't needed her to do it for some time.
If she'd just stayed at home, their lived wouldn't have changed...
[i]Except that I'd be planning my marriage to Pepper[/i]
"Excuse me," she said out loud, forcing a smile. "I think my thoughts just mugged me."
She was no longer hungry, but she was fascinated about the fact he could become a bird. Yes, Jube could become a dragon, and she'd ask him about it, but the idea of flying free, with no one looking at you in any way strangely. Jube would need to be careful. She was confused how their clothes seemed to change with them when they changed shapes, not that she wasn't relieved about that, but it was all new, exciting, now that she was over the terror of it.
"What's it like, being able to fly?" she asked, not sitting but leaning against the wall.