Woohoo, finally found time and energy to get out that post.
I kinda wanna know how Galdin felt about being passed up on that position...but I wonder if he'd be relieved after seeing that by [i]not[/i] being made the representative that he managed to avoid being directly equated to a bird. Jeralt, meanwhile, has to deal with the fact that his test scores are competitive with a bird's, and that he'll be inevitably called a birdbrain.
Even if I have to have Garuth be the one that says it.