[This was not at all what Rei expected to see when she came into the clearing in response to the sounds of Inaba's little freakout. The girl's fraying temper, her exhaustion, they were obvious even without the shouting and while Rei's own mind was falling to pieces it wasn't like she didn't have a heart. Really she felt for the other, even though her own gym clothes were filthy, her own hair was a nightmare given the length, and she'd been eating animal fat and food she'd hunted herself. Why? Because she was a soldier, and she'd been through worse.

These normal people? These were the kinds of people Usagi went out of her way to protect. And the kinds of people Rei wished she could be like, sometimes.

Quietly, ignoring her own avian shadow, Rei moved into Inaba's line of sight.]

Inaba-san. I'm not sure anything short of killing them is going to get rid of them. But they seem flightless, if you want to climb up a tree and take a rest.