He tips his head for a moment at Johnny. "This is true, even humans struggle with the lives they're told to live. I cannot assume that you have no understanding of this."

"One of Aesop's fables. My mother read them to me when I was a child." He smiles a little, fondly thinking of her as he paws another plate from the belt. "She used to say to me that she was like a scorpion. Stinging was in her nature as well, and she could no more control it than the scorpion."