"For a velociraptor I'd take every weapon I had," Rus assures him, eyes gleaming.
"I don't have to do it very often," he says almost belligerently. "I don't want to spin; I want them to stop!"
"It's not the beers fault!" Rus protests. "It's like sushi," he tells Sev. "Shouldn't cause any problems if they don't overdo." He negates this by feeding more sardines to the penguins. "I doubt they'd spend much time on looking for these fellows." Rus gets to his feet, wiping scales off his hands on his pants. "Probably think it was a rival gang that did them in and good riddance."
Should be! I hadn't thought of that! On the other hand, it did teach me the wisdom of keeping my mouth shut. You remember Muldoon, the game warden/hunter in Jurassic Park? Same guy as Rus. Of course, the raptors killed him but it was the way he would have wanted to go.