Protective instincts, and all that.
"So, if that bird got trapped in here, too, then it could belong somewhere else." The man's face darkened and twisted with his thoughts. "The Sparkbird could have been born in here, or got trapped when it was too young to remember where it came from." While normally an internal processor, and generally a slow one at that, the hunter was on a roll of thoughts racing around him and he could not help but verbalize them. "I'm not...advanced enough to speak with mythical creatures, but I could ask Frey..." He paused after mentioning the herald, glacier eyes shifting to feel out Wessex's reaction.