"I didn't say I didn't understand," he says, amused, "just that I wouldn't act as they did regardless. Still."

He smiles in answer to her question, and it seems for just a moment his eyes darken, though they don't truly flash black as they would if he were a bit more vivid in his reminiscing. "And yes. I did enjoy that. They'd had it coming a while." And he'd been caged too long; his leash is longer even now than caution dictates it really should be, but he's restless still.