Kaleeth's answer didn't end up being as simple as Sabine suspected, but it did help to convey exactly why she was scared. Sabine rearranged the her next question as a result. "When a wolf or a crocodile eats a person, is it a cannibal?" With this, Sabine lowered her knees such that she was sitting cross-legged and leaning forward. "You don't want to be a cannibal, right? You don't have to."

A second passed, Sabine shifted along the ground to sit beside Kaleeth, then Sabine wrapped her arms around her head and shoulders and hugged her like Meesei would do for Sabine. There wasn't any risk where Kaleeth had already transformed today. Sabine held onto her while speaking quietly near her ear. "I thought your thoughts. What you said, I thought that once, a long time ago. I was scared. You are scared as well. None of us deserve to die, you don't deserve to die. We have to be brave, and do our best not to be monsters. We can, so can you. You are not an animal, you are just scared." There was sincerity enough in Sabine's words that her somewhat monotonous delivery didn't seem to matter. Sabine just hoped that she was helping Kaleeth to calm down and see what was and wasn't true about the situation. Her beast spirit was still something to be respected, but at the same time continually trained and tamed. She couldn't expect to have complete control when her training was nowhere near complete. Nor should she expect that her beast spirit's primal behaviour would define her.