Illyana's amazement was instant. It seemed she was really being truthful when she said she really liked animals. It was clear how interested she was in them, and it was when talking about them when she expressed the most emotion in her words. He wondered her reasoning behind it. For a while, Aurel had considered snakes to be better than people, because they had always been nice to him, as opposed to all of adults and children he had encountered growing up. 

At her question, he glanced back at the girl. Part of him felt like maybe he should have been more careful when he mentioned having met one, considering the circumstances but, he hadn't really been thinking about that when addressing Bengal.

[color=#a7d3d4]"Oh.. yeah.. Do you know what a circus is? I.. used to be part of one.. they had one there.."[/color] He didn't say much more than that, considering the memories regarding the circus weren't all that great. He supposed that could be excluded from this however, since she was mostly interested in the mention of the tiger.