"Fortunately, Locrian has their own odd sense of honor: they refrain from harming a Beast that clearly shows distress in their condition. Unless it has harmed multiple people and caused much destruction: those may be sympathetic, but they have become part of the problem which needs to be solved," he notes. "I suspect they probably offered what reassurance they could, though it may not have been much."

He smirks a bit at Fern's trap, clearly approving of the youngster's ingenuity. "I'll be certain to make my presence known, lest it twigs Reaper's protectiveness," he says. Once in the kitchen, he'll rummage first in the fridge, then in the cupboards. "Anything in particular that you'd preferred."