[he stares, speechless for a moment, then laughs.]

If you were speaking to any other Eliatrope, you'd probably make them question a lot about themselves...

No, I'm quite sure. Our eggs are relics, left behind after our births, for our energy to return to upon our deaths. We're special in that we're constantly reborn from our original source -- it's how the Yugo you know can be thirteen years old today, and can have saved my life ten thousand years ago.

Not to mention if we were born of birds we should have beaks, or feathers, or something... [what a horrible thought]