The lumen didn't answer, responding to Rakka's question with only a lazy turn of its head toward her and a halfhearted flick of its tail. Rikku gradually unfroze, but still kept carefully out of what she figured was its pouncing range. "I don't think he understands us," she whispered after a few seconds.

So, it didn't appear to find them threatening or anything, okay. But this was their place now, and it was too big of a cat to make a good house pet. "Think he'd go away if we gave 'im a big juicy fish?" she pondered sotto voce.