The Komory Bat nuzzles Lela's paw. He'd wait to approach his person when she wasn't acting so ... volatile. He hoped Lela was right.

South is thoroughly intimidated and freaked the fuck out at this point, increased when she finally hits her back against the wall with nowhere else to go. She presses against it, as if trying to meld into it and disappear.

"You're certainly acting like it, now."