First you should write a spoiler advise so people can know its spoiler.
Second.She can't do that.She doesn't know they are looking for her.She was always a outcast so it's more probable they would kill her if she wasn't the one remaining of the royal family.Thats why she can't just go and say...." I'm the 8th princess"
She is afraid.
I hope it helps ╥﹏╥
I understand the writing thing, but in the novel, she wanted to do that but couldn't because it would hurt her talons
ghjgfhj i apologize i wasn't sure whether to mark it as spoilers or not since truth be told this is just my speculation of what's going on in the plot (and yeah i know the wording makes it sound like im confident this is the truth but no im actually not lol. im just tired and I haven't read past chapter 11 so for all i know i could be wrong
tbf i know she doesn't know they might be looking for her. My main problem is that it's painfully obvious the author is avoiding trying to solve the communication problem between them to drag it out as long as possible. It's been suggested the MC can write (she can draw a circle in the ground and she can read so it's hypothetically possible) and the captain keeps thinking that the MC is smarter than a normal bird so why doesn't the MC try writing to the captain to prove she's trustworthy enough to help him and why doesn't the ML try anything he can to prove that she's just as smart as he believes??
All the author has to do is address these questions once - maybe the ML does try telling her to do a dumb thing a human would do and she refuses because she doesn't want to embarrass herself (reinforcing the ML's suspicions that, nah, he's insane for thinking she's sentient so he never tries asking her to do something human-like again) and maybe the MC can't write because she's afraid that'll put suspicion on her that something of her intelligence level can be trusted to roam freely - and I'd be satisfied.
I totally get where you're coming from though tho so thanks for jumping in. My bad on the spoiler part, so I apologize for that
oh!! good to know that solves one of my issues. hopefully if it's addressed in the novel then it'll be addressed in the manga soon enough because that information is pretty key to the immersion ha ha
Lol you're welcome hun (づ￣ ³￣)づ
I feel dumb for only just now realizing that the person the ML and this dude are looking for is not either of the first princesses but our main character herself
I'm guessing both of the first princesses are dead (and/or thought to be dead) but she's the only one unaccounted for and the next best fit for queen so they're trying to search for her...not realizing she's trapped in the body of a bird (and that her body might have "vanished" and melded with that bird's form: hence why we keep seeing her human form from time to time as somehow her human body got tucked inside the bird one through some magic bullshit lmao)
Also one thing that really bothers me: the MC can write, can't she? I don't know if it's ever explicitly stated that she can but if she wants to prove she's smarter than she looks and got transposed into the body of a bird why not just write "Hi I'm the 14th princess" in the ground or something? Better yet, an easy way for the captain to tell if she's sentient or not is to just tell her to do certain things like "move two footsteps to the right", "hop off the desk and hop on it again three times exactly no stopping", "fly from my shoulder to my desk to my chair" etc. etc. to prove that the bird understands human language very goddamn well