“What? No,” he shakes his head, quick to clear up that misunderstanding. Worse comes to worse, they can always get another one if the first one gets killed accidentally, but he’d rather make the venture as short and sweet as possible. Thus far, nothing good has come from venturing into the woods. “Not stuff it. We need to keep it alive.”

And not get killed by it. That’s a priority. The biggest priority. But Tony will deal with it when they actually catch one of the damn things and see what it does.

“Feed it. Care for it. Teach it not to bite us and to bite things that attack us. That’s—That’s really the plan in a nutshell.”