User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-28530195-20161221035037/@comment-28358106-20161221182147

"Oh! Oh!" Aegis waves her wing. "Dad is gilding the edges of my lead pinions in silver! It'll look awesome!  That's my present."

Aurora fidgets shyly. "I...can't think of anything specific, really. I already have everything I want, I couldn't possibly ask for anything more."

"Awww, we love you too, Aurora!" Aegis wraps her wings around her from behind while she turns red. "But we'll getcha something!"

"I'm always looking for a new pair of boots," Aurum says. "And dresses. And gloves, and blouses..."

"Hmmm. Maybe some pre-prepared microscope slides, with a guidebook," Lucida says, "Or a slide prep kit."

"Just get Lucida a dead animal mounted to a board, and she'll love it," Aegis says.

"Quiet!" She huffs.

"Not sure...surprise me?" Ferra shrugs with an embarrassed smile.

"I wouwd wike a gweat big bwock of bismuf," Gemmi says. "It's pwetty."