Elhadron gave the shop owner a critical look. A little on edge, but probably not lying? Not really. Just... mistaken.
"No..." he replied, turning back to look at the blank expanse that was the glass window. "No it does not."
He heard a few delicate impacts on the street outside, light and fragile. Probably birds. There was a larger crack, with the flexible resonance of wood and a hollow space. It had been struck by something harder.
Horse kicking a wall.
That had taken him way too long. He still wasn't totally awake yet, apparently. Obviously it was just a horse.
"I'm going to check on the--" His sentence cut off with his hand still on the door. Something had thudded against the bottom of it. They were coming closer now.
Then, as with so many ordinary deluges, the clouds opened up all at once. Creatures with fur and scales and skin of every time, creatures with wings both fleshy and feathered, creatures with fins, began thundering down from the sky. The inside of the shop boomed with their impact against the roof. Through the window Ladybird could see everything from little wisps of songbird to animals nearly the size of a cart.
"Can you see out?"
The mare across the street reared back, battering the wall and fence around her in earnest.