"Yeah, see, if it was just good behavior maybe this thing wouldn't be so heavy." He grabs a handful of meat chunks and tosses them into the pen, and the rodent thing jumps on them immediately.

Ginko laughs quietly, then upends the remaining contents of the bucket into the bowl in the corner of the pen. "Fair enough. At least it's not like it's dangerous for them or anything."

Because let's face it, he trusts Koel to be responsible with what she feeds the animals way more than he trusts the occasional visitors that try to give them their leftover carnival food.