[Just another sigh as the wolf looks over at Zidane and pads over to bump its head against his head. You, too, monkey boy.]

She was around the entire time, watching. It's a bad habit of hers.

[Yes, that is how he's going to describe it. The wolf just slowly wags its tail, as if knowing full well what Eustace is meaning.]

If things had gotten more dangerous she would have come in... You could say she was testing us. [Or getting in practice, whatever.]