Carver didn't get to interact much with the trio after dinner, as he was still soaking his vines long after they had finished eating. He gave  a half-ass kick to the tricksters' shins whenever they wandered through the dining room to tease him but otherwise didn't expand the grave. The pumpkin creature begrudgingly accepted his fate as he finally left the lair for the lab tower. It took him quite a bit of a detour to get to the climbable parts of the pumpkin patch wall, but he still refused to take the 'proper' pathway through.

"You're late," was the first thing he heard upon walking in the door. Doctor Finkelstein leered over the bannister from a couple floors up.