"Suak is too small to trigger the automated defences on the plateau", Crinomu said when they felt the alegoyle was ready to fly free, "but I wouldn't take him near those nests where you found his egg. At this age his instinct is to hunt birds, mice and other rodents. When they are young alegoyle behave like traditional birds of prey and it is only as they get older and bigger that they start to hunt larger creatures than any bird could ever do." Asanka learned how to swing a lure, a rope with a tempting parcel of meat at the end which would encourage Suak to swoop and strike. Suak responded well to the training and a bond of trust developed between them. Throughout that summer the threesome were inseparable, Asanka, Suak and Lyr; the boy, the alegoyle and the foal.