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[aettir]

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one (1) crow

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[ the attachment's tilted to show only empty floor-for all of five seconds. there's a squawk in the unseen background, then, and in a blur, the camera's presented with two hands full of cranky-looking bird. ]

Gotch--damn it!

Comments

video

[dignity_misery]

That thing's kind of cute.

[...now that it's bitten somebody.]

voice!

[aettir]

From a screen, yeah, I guess he would be.

[dignity_misery]

[She laughs faintly.]

Are you bleeding?

[aettir]

Nah, he's pretty used to me now!

[dignity_misery]

Then why are you trying to get rid of him?

[aettir]

-it's not like we were gonna keep him anyway. But he could probably still use some watching.

[dignity_misery]

Why would you take it in if you didn't want it?

[aettir]

My teammate picked him up. Something was up with the wing, he couldn't fly.

[dignity_misery]

[Fff.]

Of course. [She doesn't sound impressed.] He would have made something a nice meal.

[aettir]

I dunno about nice, crows are tougher than they look.

[dignity_misery]

Some predators like their food with a little kick.

[aettir]

Big supporter of the food chain, huh.

[dignity_misery]

I guess I am. Triumphs are sweeter when you don't owe them to anyone else.

[aettir]

Guess that's true. A crippled wing's a pretty big handicap, though!

[dignity_misery]

And there are other birds.

[She's not the most compassionate of ladies.]

[aettir]

So it would've been a pretty weak victory anyway.