138 From the Corners of My Mind

"He's not the only eagle here. He's not the only one with a mate, or a kid, and -" the four striped male threw his hands in the air, "he decided to bed down with her?! With the one female with a snake for a mate?! I'll never understand the harpies."

Shuule's hackles raised, but she stayed silent. gauging by his stripe count, Aquilla was the leader of the eagles, and probably all of the birds, since the City seemed to have watered down the clans as much as possible; cats, dogs, birds. Who knew what the bears and the other males who didn't quite fit followed, except for the King of all, who had always been a tiger.

"What does that have to do with you telling me what the fuck is being planned against a citizen who hasn't done anything wrong?!" Iro hissed, Aquilla standing square and folding his arms. He wasn't about to budge.

"hasn't done anything wrong? That's your first mistake."