Lucius, striving to calm himself, rubbed his temples and, in a low tone more suited to his own ears than to the hawk, said, "Perhaps it's just some kind of blinding spell. Continue, after you saw those Holy Knights and Clerics, how exactly were you discovered?"
The hawk swallowed imperceptibly and pondered, "Everything happened too quickly. I was trying to see more clearly at the time, but the radiance around those people blinded me. By the time I regained my senses, Doodoo had already been hit by several golden light arrows, and then... I fell alongside Doodoo. If not for the thick snow below, I might not even be alive to see you now."
"They brought you down with just a single blow?"
