"Thanks. They'll go for any excuse to swarm, though."

Where cats...well, cats just didn't do that on their own.

"Yeah, I've noticed that. With the many small targets. That's pretty much a rat's whole survival strategy."

Run away until your numbers got big enough that it was too many for whatever you were attacking to fight off.

"My plan is pretty much to just hope that they forget they have magic." Not a good plan. Fortunately, he wasn't entirely serious about that plan. "But at least the wolves I've seen, they don't seem too enthused about the side they ended up on. That might work in our favor, although I don't know about the ones I haven't seen."