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If Osprey had been able to form coherent thoughts, hers might have been, I've made a terrible mistake. The goose continued its noisy onslaught, biting at her now with its sharp bill and eliciting melodramatic cries of, "It's killin' me's! I'm dyin'!"

Abruptly, the assault stopped. Battered and bleeding from a few shallow cuts, the pup scrambled to her feet and snapped her head around to see Saēna tackling the indignant goose to the ground, triumphing where Junior herself had failed. Rather than feel put out by this, Osprey Jr. trembled slightly and watched, wide-eyed and unwittingly admiring, as tiny Saēna proved that she was Warrior material too.