"Perhaps we ought to --" ...what? Fight them? Defeat them? Run away?

He doesn't even know what it is they are facing.

Not to mention, he had no idea how close he was to Yvaine until now, and that makes him momentarily forget about the entire strange shadows thing.

"Uh." He shifts his gaze back up to the sky, just as that now familiar shadow casts itself once more atop the trees, accompanied by that shrill squawking.

"It sounds like some sort of bird..." he whispers, hand slightly tightening over her arm, breath hot against her skin.