"Oh." He genuinely hadn't thought of that; he considers it. "I could still be wrong, though. I don't, I don't know, man." Drizzt is really, really nice. Way more nice than Zam deserves, for sure. Zam does not feel at all better for how they fucked him over during Medusa.

"Maybe after the APO, I'll see about allying. ... there's something Mapicc and Ro have seen that you haven't."

"Oh?"

"Follow me." Drizzt starts leading him away from spawn.

"O...kay." This is probably a trap. That's fine, he doesn't have anything that valuable on him.

Drizzt starts digging out a room, copying what Mapicc did last time to keep it hard to find. 

And then he has a spawn egg in his hand. 

Zam jumps back, sword in hand, breath caught in his chest. "Holy moly! How did you--holy. Daaaamn, okay. And Mapicc and Ro--know how to do this?"

"They don't know how-- even I don't know how, she just came with me when I got here." He summons Guenhwyvar. "Zam, meet Guenhwyvar."

Zam is going to shriek and press himself against the wall!!!!! What the fuck!!!!!!!!! Oh no he is going to die here—

—It takes him a solid 30 seconds to realize that Guenhwyvar is not attacking him and another 10 to calm down. “What the fuck!!!!!!” Okay, deep breaths. “Is it—going to hurt me?” Probably not, since it hasn’t yet. Stupid question. “So Mapicc and Ro—know that you can do this, but they can’t? And you don’t know—how you do this.”

When he sees Zam press himself to the wall, he puts a hand on Guenhwyvar's shoulders. He's not actually holding her back, but he wants to look like he is. "You're a friend, she won't hurt you. And that's the shape of the issue. -- they have told me to keep her secret."

“Oh. Yeah, you— that’s a good idea. That’s not—spawn eggs aren’t—you shouldn’t have that.” And Drizzt trusted Zam with this, after being told to keep it a secret. Drizzt called Zam a friend. Zam’s brain spins. He peels himself off the wall and looks at her. Tries not to be afraid and fails. “She’s beautiful.” Stupid thing to say. Stupid, stupid, stupid. He’s still shaking a little. Drizzt has a spawn egg and Drizzt spawned in some sort of huge modded cat and none of this should be possible and Drizzt trusts Zam.

"She is," he looks soppily at Guenhwyvar. "I know she can be a little intimidating."

"It's okay. I just--wasn't expecting--this. Wow. This is--wow. Goodness. She's--friendly?"

"She's friendly." To Guen: "Go on, say hello."

Guenhwyvar sits in front of Zam. Her head comes up to his chest, and she radiates a desire for pats.

Very very tentative pat.

"She's soft." His voice is soft, too, wondering at it. There is a beautiful impossible cat and she's soft and she likes being pet and she's not hurting him and neither is Drizzt and Drizzt trusted Zam enough to share this with him, knowing that Zam could get him banned or cleared for it. Nothing about the situation feels quite real. "Thank you for--for showing me. Wow."

"I thought it was only fair, if Mapicc and Ro already know. I trust you-- a bit more than them."

Two hands is the minimal acceptable number for petting. Where is the person with three hands. 

"Oh. Huh. That's--wow." Zam is not even using two hands. Zam is using one hand, very cautiously. Drizzt trusts him. "Wow. I--wow. I don't know what to say, I--thank you. Wow."

"I am hoping you won't do anything that would cause her harm."

"Of course not. I would never." The answer is immediate, easy. Drizzt trusts him. He can't just--let that trust down.

Guenwhyvar is now lying down on top of his feet. Here's hoping he wasn't planning to leave any time soon. 

"I can get her to move, if you'd like."

"No, it's--it's okay." Zam just lives here now. That's fine. Zam can live here now. ...He takes off his crown so that if someone passes by they won't see his second layer and get curious.

"Now you know as much as your allies."