"They need to come with warning labels," he groused, mildly embarrassed but mostly just annoyed at being bested by some birds.

"No, but do we have reason to believe they're not?" he asked, just to be contrary. For his money, he was pretty sure they were just ordinary weirdos with magic who had gotten carried away and conjured up residents from other worlds, just like they said. He had seen weird; this seemed totally in the realm of possible.

"How you doing? El told me you were around here. Did they get you signed up for classes too?"