"They want to hurt you," argues Herbert and then squawks again as one of the Greimen manages to yank his tail before he flips it up out of the way. "Us! They want to hurt us!" He turns himself around slightly on Tanyuu's back to try and give the bolder aliens a kick with his right wing-foot and regrets it immediately as one of them grabs it and pulls.

"Tanyuuuuuu..." he whines, protesting, before a tiny alien fist yanks out one of his feathers and he yells, his fists tightening in Tanyuu's kimono. The back is going to have to be replaced, at this rate.