[Keith doesn't seem to see anything odd about it, and Yuri supposes there isn't anything odd. He is a bird at the moment.]

There are worse birds to be, that's certain, though I would rather be human again. A raven can hardly be a lawyer. [He would smile, if he could.] But thank you, Keith. [He's glad, though, that the man doesn't try petting him again as he rides on his shoulder.]

[When Keith asks him the question about the area, Yuri isn't sure, at first, but at last he has to answer:] Not particularly, no. [Yet he has noticed something odd, something that definitely was not there before, rising in the distance.] Is that a mountain?