"Everything secured up there!"  Yulen's boss shouted as Yulen did the final checks of all the nails and attachments.

"It's all good up here!  Well I'll just be heading off for the day then!"

"Ya ya, get going ya half-timer!"  The boss grunted as he turned his attention to another project.

"Done here for now, I'll need to complete my other chores quickly so I'll have some time too..."  Yulen's voice trailed off as he heard some sort of a clucking sound coming from down below.  He tried to look below but some of the scaffolding got in the way so it was a bit hard to tell from up above.  Yulen quickly shimmied down like a trained acrobat to locate the source.  He was quickly able to zero in on the sound and there was one of [i]them[/i].

A cucco was busy inspecting all the boards in the house's frame, probably searching for insects or something while making its usual, annoying sounds.  Yulen's eyebrows started to curl in annoyance, as a child he had had a rather...unfortunate encounter with a flock.  It had scared him for years and while he was pretty much over it by now, he still harbored a bit of resentment.  He crept up on the cucco, determined to make sure it couldn't mess up there work at all.

The white feather ball clucked in happiness or perhaps boredom, as it sniffed around.  Yulen crept up from behind a plank, and lunged for the creature.  Perhaps sensing his annoyance, the clucker noticed his attempt to grab it and with a cry, bolted for the street.  In its mad rush the cucco ran right into the legs of a laborer balancing a bunch of boards, which caused him to trip and collapse in a heap with the boards.

"Come back here you feathered fiend!"  Yulen gave chase to the fleeing poultry, determined to lock it up in its pen, wherever that was.  Into the streets he chased after the cucco which had the advantage of being small and able to dart around people and objects to foil his attempts.  Soon his focus was entirely on catching the blasted bird to prevent it from fowling up even more people's days.  Soon everything else started to fade into the background as he grew tunnel vision in his quest as the bird was proving to be quite the adept runner.