....Veronica suddenly felt very small. This was a feeling she felt many times, but this was a remarkable one. It wasn't every day she ended up in a re-enacted scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

With luck, she blended in enough that they wouldn't try to eat her.

"All of them are?" There was surprise in her tone more than anything. She scanned the flock around them. "Are they... all of yours?"

Ako, meanwhile, was overjoyed, and was crowing happily. Her people! They have come to her!