'Robot squid'? Daine ruffles her feathers, appalled by the thought, then hops beneath one of the bleachers. If they're going to have a proper conversation, she'll have to shift again, and she doesn't want to do it any more out in the open than she has to.

Once she's tucked away where only he can see her, she reshapes her head until it's all human, if small enough to still fit on her crow body. "I'm Daine," she says, bracing herself to resume crow shape and take off if he starts shouting.