Somewhere in the back of his mind Luca recognizes his name, but it's a vague recollection that the sound is important and nothing more. Perhaps he could have remembered what the name meant, and what this prey means by 'not being this way', but his mind's a fog and the other beast he's hunting with has begun to circle Varian.

Luca begins to circle the other way, using his long, serpentine body to block their prey from fleeing.