"Have you spotted any yet? Little buggers keep evading me anytime I think I've seen one."

Why had she agreed to go on a bird-fetching quest, again? Oh, right, because there's nothing else to do and if she has to hang around her roommates any longer she's going to implode. People in relationships are the wooooorst, and if she keeps doing favors for the mages maybe they'll give her something cool again.