He laughs at her surprise and can't stop his helpless laughter long enough to even begin to explain. He doesn't know what will happen if the beast is touched, truth be told, but he doesn't get to find out.

He sees that itching and through hindsight now knows what it means, bringing him to grin wide, and then wider as a beast does indeed appear. It somehow, he knows it's hers.

Amalthea leaps from his arms and lands perfectly upon the ground. She shifts mid trot back to her fluff goat form, not nearly as big as her beast but determined all the same to bump heads against him.

He steps closer to her, taking a hand. With awe in his whisper, he says, "Is it not among the most miraculous you've ever witnessed?" And he's pleased to see the beasts are apparently taken to each other as well. "They're all over this place."

And unlike lusii, he has one.