"I needed an eagle." They didn't come up on the block all that often; an eagle trained and hooded was worth double their weight in gold; especially in good armor. The mews had been thin for years and one more body wasn't going to make that much of a difference-

Except in all the ways that it had.

Maine rumbled quietly- helmet golden, gleaming, and impenetrable

"Unstable is used to mark insubordinate hawks more often than actual violent tendencies. If he was insubordinate, I could train it out of him. If he was violent, eh." He shrugged, let his hands splay over the desk. He was mafia. "We have ways of handling that."