Cirrus might have taken offence at the thing's sheer lack of manners, but really, she could relate to its rough-around-the-edges approach to life. The cloudmare herself was not always the most polite creature, nor overly articulate, and so when the fire-bird-reptile-thing called her a bug, she laughed a sharp note.

A mare coated with scales arrived then - Cirrus vaguely recognised her from her time in the Throat, though she could not for the life of her recall a name to go with the striking appearance. She didn't think on it long.

The stallion who arrived next was like a grey version of Gaucho, and Cirrus froze up for a moment as he stumbled almost straight into the fire-hoarding bird-reptile-thing, caught between guilt and surprise at the reminder of her abandonment of the Throat's sandy halls. But, he wasn't Gaucho (the Wildfire would never forget to look where he was going), and so the cloudmare relaxed a touch, stifling a laugh as the thing burst into flames and mumbled curses beneath its breath.

More arrived. Many more. Cirrus vaguely recognised a face here or there - a colt from the Falls was relatively near, looking a little worse for wear. A low whicker cooed from her muzzle to him, a wing extended invitationally to the dark smudge of a boy (@Milo ). The rest, she ignored, rather concerned over the wellbeing of this nameless, motherless boy in a halter.

As it was, she sort of missed the question, the challenge laid out to them all by the fire-bird-thing, and so when her attention swivelled back to it an antlered unicorn with a lantern swinging from his tines having a full-on conversation with the fire-chicken, she was a little bit, well, surprised.

"You're going to trust it with your lantern?" Cirrus asked the antlered brute (@Tilney ), "aren't you worried he might sit on it?" It was a genuine concern - the thing was already using a vial of fire to warm its own behind - did it really need 1- another thing to warm itself with and 2- another thing to rub its strange ignitable buttcheeks against?

"You're not very nice," Cirrus commented matter-of-factly to the fire-pigeon. Reckon you should give it to him," she gestured to Tilney, "for being so polite to you despite your incendiary nature."

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