It's fine.

[He just laughs a bit, and Regal wanders over and drops his big Braviary butt next to Tobias.]

Nah, I'm not an angel. I spent most of the war as a hawk, though. We got the ability to change into animals, but it's got a time limit, and I went over. I got the power back, but it was a one time kind of deal, so I had to keep hawk as my 'normal' form so I didn't lose the power again.