Porcupine Ridge cloud city

Apologies for the wait!

The branch she had landed upon quivered slightly as the bird tried to calm herself, chittering away quietly and nervously preening her ruffled feathers. She couldn't believe someone would have the gall to just attack her like that! She, a tiny, innocent magpie! Still young and largely unaware of her natural predators, Shiv just couldn't believe it. Her eyes flicked to the feline who glared back at her with a show of her fangs.

In any other circumstance, the bird would have offered to help the stranger catch some breakfast. But considering she herself had just about become their breakfast, she wasn't in the most generous of moods. "Do not deserve breakfast," she said with a snap of her beak. "So rude."