Cars zip on by and idle conversations buzz around you as you walk through downtown, your huge avian companion, Tahki trodding beside you.

"Ugh. That store clerk was so damn annoying. Why couldn't he just ring us up instead of ogling at me?" the Staraptor grouses, her feathers visibly ruffled in irritation.

She drapes one of her giant wing arms over you, hugging you tightly against her side, your face inadvertently pressed to her thick belly. "I don't care what you say. I'll eat the next shithead who so much as looks at me funny..."