Alex was learning some minor things about the four clans even through these conversations. All he had to do was listen to their words and he would learn something.
At this point, he had learned that at least one of the four heavenly beast clans' head was a female, a matriarch, and from the conversations he heard, it was most likely the phoenix.
He knew the White Tigers had a patriarch, and the Azure Dragon did so as well. The snake hadn't talked as much so he didn't get a chance to hear much. But he did get an inkling that the snake that had arrived itself was most likely a female instead.
Alex wondered if there were any signs to recognize who was a male and who was a female based on the beasts themselves, other than the obvious ones of course.
The beasts' conversations didn't last for long as the sky grew dense with energy, ready to spill out onto the haggard Bladedance.