[He can't give her a squeeze back, having to hold the big egg with both arms, but he sends a warm pulse her way with the temperature manipulation ability they share.]

I get it. This egg could've been the bird's kid.

[Saya herself had two little nieces who likewise hatched from "eggs", isn't that right?]

But it's the circle of life. Maybe if we hadn't gotten it, some egg-eating creature would've. Thanks to it a bunch of people on our end will survive.