I was more thinking about learning from geese, not provoking them directly. I'll have to tell you about Airman Higgs sometime; he had a particularly nasty run-in.

[Gil chuckles a bit, though it's slightly... mad.]

A militia is not formed without ponies with fighting prowess, after all. Do you have any experience in that area?

[Gil is willing to bet the answer is "very much no."]