At the word shapeshifter Bran thinks of Jaye, too--she who was sworn to Sansa, who offered advice when he asked of warging. So there were more like her, which means that this hawk has a human face that he is not using. It is interesting, and as different from warging as it is similar.

"I can try," he says, and carefully moves forward, examining the way that the shapeshifter bird is caught in the branch. It will be no easy task to free him without causing him some pain, but if he is careful, he can do it. "Is there anyone aboard that can mend your wing for you?" And he thinks, then, of when he wears Summer's skin, and how the pain of being hurt as Summer lingers-- "Will your arm be broken when you are yourself again?"

And even as he asks the question, he tentatively reaches for the branch, moving it just a little, wary of making the shapeshifter cry out.