"...I hadn't thought of that." To think of them all as nothing more than the Ancient's pets... At least an experiment has some purpose, an end goal. Was he thrown in with this lot, just to make things a little more entertaining? Something pretty for display?

He can't fly (as far as he knows), but the way she says 'try' to climb tells him he'll be better at it. "I'll get it," he says, already reaching for the first branch up. It'll give him a moment.