Fairly so, yes.

[He knows that people aren't likely to come back--after all, there are others who have come and gone, and stayed that way. But.]

Maybe so. I do not recall it being an issue while traveling with Ardbert, but it did spend quite a lot of time play-fighting with another of his creatures. I found myself with one, but not the other.

[He'll need to see if Harbin has also been passed to him.]