Please consider this: Simon reading to Taka, both novels and legal documents.
Oh my god anon this is so adorable and he definitely does this. Like he definitely sits at his desk in his office and goes over the finer details of his cases with Taka; he almost uses the bird as a way to counter his own arguments. Like he’ll say something and then stare long at Taka and then finally go, “no, you’re right, that argument sucks I need to think of something better.” Taka is basically the closest thing Simon has to a paralegal.
And then when they go home, Taka is up on his perch all nestled in to sleep while Simon is in his bed, reading to him. And although Simon cannot look inside the bird’s mind, it seems as though his voice soothes Taka to sleep, the way a mother’s lullaby would carry her child off into dreamland.
