Invasion. There's got to be thousands of them, or more. And the aliens we know have weird powers, like Badri can kill with his mind, so even if they don't go for nuking us from orbit, there will be shock troops. With superpowers.

[He yanks his beak through a few feathers, squeezing some water out of them, then starts walking back and forth almost violently, his eyes flashing under closed inner lids.]

Maybe robots too, I don't... we've gone this far, we might as well go full ridiculous science fiction. They'll come in, and try and kill us all, and I don't know, there'll be a Lo! the Bird! scenario. Why not, if the moon's alive.

That's this old story where this giant space bird flies through the solar system and starts making the planets hatch, and I know that sounds stupid but it was written so by the time it gets there it's - horrifying.

[Despite the size and brightness of his eyes it's possible to miss him tearing up, with how liquid collects in the round curve of his lower lids.]