"Nor did I, I assure you--but so long as there is no lasting damage, save to pride or dignity, I dare say we shall survive!" Not that Yotsuyu would have been half so happy about wounds to either, six months or so ago, but how the times had changed!

"That was well done. Hopefully they are preoccupied now, and shall disperse without attempting to find us again. Horrible creatures." Not that Yotsuyu disliked most birds as a matter of course--she was rather fond of rooks, as it went--but eagulls were noisy and dirty and quite frankly, a nuisance. She was not surprised at all to find they needed to be hunted here.