"I don't need help. It's okay, Maurice. Nothing like... happened to me. It's cool."

Might as well get that out of the way to begin with.

Because she really was pretty sure that this wasn't something that 'happened'. It had been out of the blue, to be sure, but...

"It's just... a thing. Kind of been getting used to it. You know, like that dog you turn into."

Bringing up Snowball wasn't really that helpful though, since Snowball could be explained by the fact that Maurice was a vampire. Heather was still, as far as her friends knew, human. With that in mind, Slenderbird was still a total enigma.