She nods. "It's an effort sometimes, you have to take it seriously, but it can be worth it." Pets in the Temple hadn't been unknown - Yoda had a thing for kyybucks - but had been a little less personal than out here. And people don't practice beast-communing techniques on them here, not often.

"We visited a world where just about everyone had companion animals, and a lot of us picked up some temporarily. A few we got to keep." Sensing attention, her togetic chirps more enthusiastically.