"If they never encounter anything scary, I suppose so. But you probably weren't batting them with your paws and hissing menacingly."
"I am definitely a fluffbat person," says Tanalin. "They're so fluffy and flappy and they make that little 'wheep' sound when you pet them!"
"They're all cute, I just like the black and white on the piano bears. Everything else in all those bright colors would be weird to keep with you all the time, it wouldn't match everything you might wear."
"I'm going to need to set aside a few minutes and pastwatch all this, aren't I," snorts Bella.
Meanwhile, Kiawen brainphones their friends from Toure-en-Marsh. [Kanim found us a cave that even Carinna likes!]
[It's not boring, it's just safe and cute. There are lots of little, harmless friendly animals in it.]
[There are little black and white bears that fit in the palm of your hand, and two flavored springs, and glowing crystal formations, and a maze.]
[Kanim's going to make another trip soon and you can come! He wants to figure out its magical properties. If he figures out why the animals haven't left the cave by themselves, we can see if we can take them out safely and have pets from it. If Cricket promises not to scare them, anyway. I want one of the bears, and Carinna wants a glowing rolling furball called a poof, and Tanalin wants a fluffbat which is what it sounds like, and there are also little hovering birds and things like poofs only with faces and round foxes and tiny hamsters with bumblebee and tiger stripes, and in the pool around the cucumber fountain were itty-bitty ducks in all colors and even smaller ducklings, and some things we thought were rocks but turned out to be very slow turtles that change color and have flowers growing on their shells.]