They listened to this for a moment. There seemed to be only one response.

"...What?!"

Wizard cats and dogs and birds? Gates? Hyperstrings? Even though he was a sorcery, Matthew was still pretty familiar with wizards and what they did, as well as the many other kinds of magic that people practices. But he'd never heard of...whatever this was.

"No, we didn't, but there were reports...I...okay, what the bloody hell is going on? What on earth is a Gate, and why are you calling yourself a wizard when you don't sound like any wizard I've ever met?"