...Of course there'd be a larger compatriot to the small ones they'd been making inroads on. It always seemed to turn out that way at home; why would it be any different here? For the time being, however, it didn't seem inclined to attack. That or it couldn't actually get in close enough to manage to land an attack yet, but that was just as well. If they could take out the smaller ones first it would make things easier later.

Not, of course, that he didn't keep an eye on the larger one when he could actually spare it. It was simply that it took something of a lesser priority at the moment.