Full Metal ProphylacticChapter 11
The eagles arrived a few minutes later, appearing quite entirely as proud and haughty as Lydia had described them. They circled us for about a minute, just to see if any of us would freeze to death first, thus we’d be no longer their responsibility to deal with. With clear disappointment, they saw that we were still quite cold, but not quite corpsicles yet! Mother had given their leader rather pointed and direct instructions, which most definitely did not include tearing us to shreds to feed...