Justin clamped down his jaw grit his teeth as the soreness and pain hit practically ever nerve in his body. Did it hurt? Yeah, it hurt like he had just ran a triathalon after doing a full body workout for a whole day. The kind of soreness that made you lay in bed for days almost unable to move.

Fortunately Justin was far too stubborn to just lay there when there was a potential danger near him. Pain or not, he got up. "Got up" is more of an understatement though, it was more like "They wobbled like a defenseless fawn trying to stand for the first time after being born". Typically cute, but not in this case. The defenseless part did fit, however. To be honest it was a surprise that this state wasn't already attracting wild beasts like a neon sign pointing to a rather nice resturant with a cheap all you can eat buffet.

"What... in the name of actual crap. Is. Ow. Going. Ow. On. Owww. Oh this hurts."

Chirrrrrrrp. Chir.

Justins eye twiched at the sound of the very near birdcall. He turned his head almost mechanically with how slow his head movement was. All to look at the... bird?

"Uh. Hmm. Ahh."

Chirp.

The silver creature was barely a few feet away from him. It had a look on it's odd looking face that somehow Justin could tell said "What the hell are you doing here and why are you in my territory?" Justin frowned at this as he thought about what to do.

Run? No, the thing looked like it could catch up to him pretty quickly. Although he had no idea how fast it could move now that Justin saw that it only had three legs. One in the front that was right in the middle, and two in the back of its feline shaped lower half.

Justin steeled himself. Maybe he could fight it, chase it away somehow? "Okay, yeah. Let's try that." After a bit more struggling, he tried yelling and waving his arms at the bird to shoo it away. After all, it had worked with wildlife back in his original world, so why wouldn't it work here? "YAH! Go on! Get! I'm not tasty! SHOO! Out. Go! Vamoose! Leave! ABSCOND!"

It didn't work.

The bird just tilted it's head and gave him a glare that said "Are you stupid? That won't work with me." It was actually quite hurtful to be called out by a silver bird creature of all things. Justin had come here to have a good time, and honestly he was feeling very attacked right now. But he persevered, he was determed to not lose to anybody, especially a bird. So he glared right back, trying to put as much of his moxy into that dirty look as he possibly could.

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So they stared at eachother. Neither beast nor human willing to give up due to their pride.

SHHHHBOOOM!!!

A noise from behind them both struck both Justin and the silver bird with enough force to knock them both over. Fear overrode pride and both beings clung to eatchother in a mockery of their staring match just moments earlier. The source of the incredibly loud boom was rather obvious. While Justin had been unconcious and then concious, and after he had started to deal with the bird, the timer on the doorway to his world ran out. This caused the door to wink out of existence and the surrounding air to rush back into the space the door occupied. Effectively creating an air based implosion.

"...is it gone? The door?"

Chirr.

The two waited for what felt like an eternity before quickly untangling themselves from eachother. Justin had handled birds and animals before but the silver creatures coat felt like something entirely unique. It felt like down, between feathers and fur. Very soft. The bird continued to stare at him. Justin sighed. "Yep. Doors gone. As is any chance I have now of returning to my old life." His sigh turned to a laugh. "But you know what? That's great! No more barista, no more shitty boss!" Justin turned to the bird, who looked more confused by his words and actions more than anything. "It's just you and me pal. Just us, the giant silver tree, and the untamed and terrfying looking wilderness. Great."

Chirp? Chirr.

Justin tried to pat the bird but it just flapped it's wings and hopped out of his reach. "Darn. I wanted to pet you more. Well, I'm sorry little guy. But I don't understand you. Also why is my voice so high?" He put his hand to his kneck, trying to feel for his adams apple. Which of course only confused Justin more when his adams apple was far less pronounced on his neck then it used to be. Also his neck was thinner. So was his arms and hands now that he got a good look at them. "Weird. Putting my arm through the door didn't do anything. So what changed?"

Chirp.

Justin waved the bird away, not that it followed his command in the slightest. "Shh. I'm thinking." He quickly retraced his steps in his mind to figure out what had went wrong, or right? You never knew with these things. "Okay, so the spoon was fine when I threw it out the door. My arm didn't change when I put it through the door. My stuff was fine when it went through the door. Now when I went through the door..." He walked through with the last of his stuff, made it past the spoon marker, and then; and then uh. Huh. Justin didn't remember. "There was black, then there was pain near my head, then I woke up and there was more pain. Am I missing something here?"

The silver bird chirped nothing, and continued to watch this more than likely insane twolegs that had suddenly shown up in It's territory. It understood what the twolegs was saying, sure. But it was mostly just nonsense and ramblings. No screaming, no running away from it's overwhelming glory, and it hadn't attacked yet either. But boy was the twolegs chatty. It just didn't shut up! Still. The bird hadn't had any company in a very very long time, and someone had to make sure this twolegs didn't get itself killed. Not that it was lonely or anything. Perish the thought.