"You're complaining an awful lot about this," he said with an amused smirk. "Not just the fact that you're a bird, but that you're a flat one to boot. Not that I mind. It's pretty entertaining." Hugo could find humor in almost any situation and this particular one was more than a little amusing.
His own pint arrived and Hugo took a large gulp. This island was the strangest damn place he'd ever been. And that included the inverted caves off the coast of New Zeland where he'd gotten lost for two weeks with that nymph. Course, that had been fun too.
"How's your Mum? She sounded a bit wonky the other day in the journals."