Bellamy had no idea why anyone would want a tour of the house, since to him it had long since lost the novelty of a new place and he found it incredibly boring. It was a simple enough request, though, so there was no reason to deny it. Alistair Darrow was an odd fellow, Bell reflected. He seemed preoccupied with strange things, like whether or not people were staring at him in a park, and he was fixating on things Bell thought were rather dull. Like the leopard. It was really little more than an overgrown housecat in Bellamy's opinion, and here the other man was asking about it eating people, as though the Echelons would have wanted to keep it in the house if it did.

"He hasn't yet," Bell said with a shrug, as he continued to paint. "I think you're thinking of tigers. Tigers are much bigger, and they get into tussles with little rural villages in Asian all the time, from what I understand. I don't think a leopard even could eat a person. But I don't know, I haven't looked into it," he continued in an offhand air. "But anyway, just don't climb into his cage and I don't think it'll be much of a problem."

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