Found, not explained

A feather that cannot choose

If memory is red and refusal is green, what color is the thing that needs both?

Held to the lamp it is crimson. In the shadow of a hand it is pine. No one in the house agrees which is the trick.

The greater bird on the crest wears both and explains neither. The smaller bird beneath the name is gold, and gold is not a side.

Which wing did someone already tell you was the true one — and what did they need you to stop asking?

This also refuses to settle