There are few things less fitting than Miguel, with his deathly serious and measured mannerisms, using all his focus to finish the detail-line of a parakeet beak in his latest roughly hewn invention. There. Done (ish). Given he was used to doing this another material entirely, it didn't look too bad.

"Are you just going to sit there and stare?" The question comes out a little harsher than he meant to, probably. Although momentarily distracted, he was still in too foul a mood to perform politeness right away.

The cuteness of the critter held oh-so-delicately on the hook-ends of his claws dampens the effect, somewhat.