[ He has many questions, and the specifics of what Beholding is do not rank highest among them. How many are you— he wonders what this man sees in him. With the eye motif inked across the young man's skin, he perhaps should not be surprised. ]

Then I will bear your advice in mind.

[ If only he had close connections with whom things were not presently... complicated, to put it very gently. But the logic is familiar. Dwelling on love, on things worth protecting— it's antithetical to forces of destruction. ]

It is very interesting that you have Fears and no Grimm. We do not generally [ generally! ] see people or animals corrupted in such a way. And I'm unfamiliar with a place known as... 'New Zealand'.