He sighed. He can really sympathize. "Oh, darling...I don't see a monster. It still you. In another form. And it's no less what people think and I don't care what they think. You're all I see in my eyes."

He senses her fear, and softly. When her bird head nudges her hand. "Come here, darling." He reaches out, and hold her bird body in his arms. She's very soft and warm with such downy feathers."

He pets her head, from the long feather crown, down her long swan-like neck, and touch and pet her back between her wings. She so cute, that he is filled with happiness just from holding her.

Then he coos soothingly, realizing she must have missed her family and her kin back home...all gone. "Yes, you're an adult. I bet you look like your mother and father too." He then kisses her cute bird head and murmurs. "I love you..."