"Really?" Niki sounded downright fascinated for a moment. "I've never seen a thestral before." Only pictures in books. Although he should be able to see them now - he had seen death, a lot of death during the Final Battle. But he hadn't come across any thestrals!
"Are they nice? What do they look like? Do they have names?" He posed questions, as if they were puppies, a litter of puppies that Theodore had as pets. And reached out to touch his hair, which looked very shiny.
His teeth clacked together then and he smiled in a very lopsided, slightly warped kind of way.