we can!! it might make her admit her own reveal!

[ Being chased out of your own home by the murder of your mother is enough for Lauralae to understand caution and isolation. There's a reason the majority of her life has been spent in the wilderness with her own magic and skill to keep her alive. People are more difficult, more dangerous, and she cannot trust any of them as far as she might be able to throw them - which, given her frame, would not be far at all.

Shaking her head, she settles more comfortably, offering a lap for Ellis to settle on if the beast so wishes. ]

I have tried shiny things and talking to him, but I think he enjoys being so close to me.