Indifferent bird might be a crested pigeon (I searched for "crested purple winged dove pigeon") and what a lovely indifferent bird it is!
Due to reading At the Feet of the Sun, all sufficiently large iguanas (especially ones who are In The Way) are named "My Lord" to me. (I recommend The Hands of the Emperor to start with; that series is mostly doorstoppers or novellas. Cliopher "Kip" Mdang is second in power only to His Radiency, The Sun-on-Earth, Last Emperor. Kip has survived the Fall of the Empire, sued for peace, caused the sea train to be built, instituted universal basic income, and even reformed the post office. His family, in the islands at the far end of the sea train, think Cousin Kip is a mid-level bureaucrat whose grand ambitions to change the world have gone to the Service to sputter out. Kip invites the Emperor to take a vacation. Shenanigans ensue.)
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dovepigeon") and what a lovely indifferent bird it is!Due to reading At the Feet of the Sun, all sufficiently large iguanas (especially ones who are In The Way) are named "My Lord" to me. (I recommend The Hands of the Emperor to start with; that series is mostly doorstoppers or novellas. Cliopher "Kip" Mdang is second in power only to His Radiency, The Sun-on-Earth, Last Emperor. Kip has survived the Fall of the Empire, sued for peace, caused the sea train to be built, instituted universal basic income, and even reformed the post office. His family, in the islands at the far end of the sea train, think Cousin Kip is a mid-level bureaucrat whose grand ambitions to change the world have gone to the Service to sputter out. Kip invites the Emperor to take a vacation. Shenanigans ensue.)