Sea Lion Shores cake by the ocean

The question was a common one. It was the first thing everyone noticed and most of the time, the only thing on a person's mind when they encountered Screech. Granted he had not encountered many people since he'd been rescued by the wolves of Ravensblood.

He rolled his eye and made a show of looking off at the sea before he returned to watching the white wolf, at which point he said: Well it all started with this hawk my sister somehow tamed. I got jealous and thought, fuck I wish I had a bird like that! But I couldn't find anything as big or as cool. I did find a buncha gulls though. He couched the story in truth although it twisted his gut to think of Towhee or her damned bird, X. 'Course gulls are the rats of the sea. Sure you know all about that.

Screech glimpsed at a section of ocean where sea met sky, and watched as a couple of gulls swept about on the currents. I baited 'em with whatever I could find. Finally they started doin' what I wanted, but uh — I got greedy. Started skimmin' on their food. A trio of 'em got bold enough to attack me one day and ripped out my eye. Stupid shit birds — he resisted the urge to smirk at the thought of the Cerberus in bird form, but there was a shine of mirth in his remaining eye.