[There might be a few muffled squeaks when his wings are touched. Dist is being gentle, yes, but they aren't quite in pain so much as they're so sensitive they've become ticklish. Just moving the feathers even a little was almost too much to take! And it's already taking quite a bit of willpower to keep still as it is.]

[He lets out a sigh of relief when he's finished.]

...progressing in maturity? [He looks at Dist's wings when he shows them, and there is a similarity in the feather structure... so there's the explanation for that. But that just leaves one thing on Ion's mind...]

But why would they change so suddenly? They weren't even the same color the last time I looked at them. And I haven't been doing anything different, either.