Oh, they're weird! 'Useful' doesn't preclude weird at all.

[Idly Julien half-opens his wings and stretches, taking up a great deal of space, and considers getting to the closest rooftop. He thinks he could make it.]

It's spring in Locke, too. Well, technically spring. The winter's run long. [Julien raises a blue-dyed eyebrow. Do not ask me how he got his eyebrows and eyelashes colored.] It's not March for you?