"Right? Though by the time she's done with him, he might be the one with that expression on her face." This idea appealed to Heiji, whose idea of a great present was something that made its recipient's life more exciting. If that recipient was Apollo, of course.

"I never had a pet myself, I just hear about 'em from other people." After all, an animal keeping another animal as a pet, who'd ever heard of that?