You are new here. I shall give you a piece of advice for free.

[Mostly because he realizes how bad it will look if he carves his initials into a new feather.

Still, he prepares just in case the new person does something delightfully stupid, quietly casting an illusion over himself, becoming invisible, stepping silently away.]

When someone nearly three feet shorter than you and far less than half your weight seems utterly unconcerned over the prospect of getting in a fight with you, you ought to set your temper aside and consider just why that might be. [He smiles.]