[Espy]

Ciaran was out the window before Quintus even heard anything; with a snarl, he made a mad dash towards the strange cat, shouldering her and sending her tumbling towards the other side of the street. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the the metal monster a mere few taillengths away, pushed off the sour-smelling black ground with one leg, and careened straight into a streetlight.

He could've sworn he saw stars. And the monster had passed so closely that he had felt the breeze on his tail.

On the same side of the street as the strange cat now, Ciaran would later be embarrassed to find that he had passed straight out.

((Yeah, go ahead and do whatever you want with him while he's out cold; I might be gone for a bit.))