[He didn't immediately kill the Protopet, the little blue creature still struggling and snarling under his hold. Instincts demand he finish the job, and he'd just been about to before the stranger arrived - Ami, he remembered, from a previous dream.

His tail twitches once, glancing over his shoulder in curiousity, but the Protopet sees this as its chance. Kicking the Lombax in the jaw, it wriggles out of those sharp fangs, falling to the ground and turning its attention to the newcomer.

Barking, snarling, and essentially foaming at the mouth, the 'pet' lunges at Ami before the Lombax can even try to stop it.]