a few moments later he was scuttling through the palace 's corridors holding the message capsule and owing to carelessness brought on by surprise - sucking at the nasty beak wound on the back of his hand rincewind pounded down an alley , paying no heed to the screams of rage coming from the picture box and cleared a high wall with his frayed robe flapping around him like the feathers of a dishevelled jackdaw .