Well, that was certainly a lot to take in. Ayumu's glad she had the foresight to be sitting down before naming him. It'd be far worse if she'd been standing. And she'd been right to hold off on naming him. Seeing and feeling all of that would have been too much for her to handle the night she'd met him.

But rather than feel threatened by his words or the new edge in his tone, Ayumu just smiles to herself, a little bemused. She sure knows how to pick them, doesn't she?

"Your form is called a tanto. And hunting will come after we've had a cup of tea," she replies in a tone that would be sweet if not for its underlying steel of command. "Joscelin, return."

Once he's back in child form, Ayumu will stand up and start tea preparations.

"Any idea what snacks you might like? I brought over onigiri and manju since it's all I had ready on such short notice..."