[He shifts a little, head still in his hand, his other one spinning his pencil around in his fingers.]

The opposite. I've known him a while.

[God, that's it exactly, isn't it? If humans aren't food then they're pets.]

No one needs to own a pet. They only do it out of some selfish desire for companionship, or - I don't know, because they think it's cute.

[Also, he is not an animal person. That was that brat's territory, what with her dumb love of cats.]