Funny / Silverwing

• Shade and Marina get into a friendly argument over whose species is the better hunter, and engage in a mosquito-eating contest to settle it. Marina wins, but the consequences of eating so much so fast quickly catch up to both of them, and by the time their stomachs have settled enough for them to continue flying they agree to just call it a tie.
  Shade: I never want to eat another mosquito in my life.
  Marina: Did they seem unusually spicy to you?
  Shade: Please, don't talk about it.
• At the end of Sunwing, when discussing Ariel having been given Frieda's position among the colony elders, Shade agrees that his mother is a good choice, despite not having performed anything along the lines of his own heroic actions over the course of the story... upon which Cassiel gives his son a knowing grin and starts teasing him about having secretly hoped to be offered the elder position despite barely being a year old. Shade makes a halfhearted denial before shooting back that Cassiel had hoped to be asked too; Cassiel opens his mouth to rebut this, then closes it without saying anything, and the two companionably agree that it's probably better for the whole colony that neither of them were.
• The "Prove it's you!" test Griffin gives Shade, and Shade's increasing frustration at his son's (fairly justified given the circumstances, but still) paranoia. ("Would you stop talking about me like I'm not here?")
  Griffin: In the human city, Shade got chased by pigeons. How many pigeons were there?
  Shade: It was... um, six, I think.
  Griffin: I heard it was nine!
  Shade: Well, it was a while ago, but I'm pretty sure it was just six.
  Griffin: All the other newborns said it was nine.
  Shade: I was there!
  Griffin: Were you? I wonder.
• There's a line in Firewing where the narrator (narrating Shade's thoughts) lampshades the fact that all the Vampyrum bats have scary names.
  "Who named these bats?"
• The prequel, Darkwing has this little exchange between Dusk and Sylph:
  Sylph: You know, little brother, you look particularly odd from this angle.
  Dusk: You know, big sister, from this angle it would be particularly unfortunate if I had to pee.
  • While on the subject of urine, in the opening of Firewing, some of the newborns are discussing what they should do to the Humans who are passing by in their forest, ending with someone suggesting, "We should pee on them."

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