[The book is even more tempting.]

Maybe where you're from. We're in a different place now though. No need for hunting, or bloodshed. [Foreign, she knows.] They'll fight each other for sport and then leave and get stronger. And the cycle will continue, because they think it's fun. As the little... hellhound's trainer, it's your job to guide it- not... whatever this is that you think is optimal but isn't.

[Okay, wow, chill a bit Jinx?]

[Amalthea seems to be hiding behind Jinx's legs while the trainers talk- or... argue futilely. She'd like to say hi to the houndour, but it's trainer is intimidating. After a moment, she looks up to see Jinx digging through the backpack she'd received- for the book she mentioned?]

You know what, come here- don't you have one of these? Or do you just go flailing blindly wherever you walk?