Quacker
A duck, specifically a mallard, and I want to note that off-world mallards are already faster and more aggressive than most people give them credit for. Hellsborough's version has taken that reputation and run with it at a speed that shouldn't be physically available to something that shape.
A quacker doesn't so much fly as relocate. One moment it's dabbling at the edge of a pond looking entirely unbothered, the next it's fifteen feet away and airborne, with no visible moment of launch in between. I tried to film one taking off once and the footage shows the duck, then a blur, then the duck again in a different place, with nothing usable in the middle.
They are not predators and mostly want bread, or whatever's replaced bread this decade, but a quacker defending a nest of eggs treats the blink-speed the same way it treats a lazy afternoon. Suddenly you have a mallard attached to your shin and no memory of it crossing the distance to get there.
The green head sheens with the same odd colour-shift as a Decorated flutterby's wing, which I've never seen written up anywhere and offer here purely as an observation I can't yet explain.
Field note: give nesting quackers a wide, slow berth. Sudden movement near the nest is the only thing that reliably provokes the blink-strike.
| Type | Blinker |
| HP | 2 |
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