"I like you. You can stay." He says it with an air of great magnanimity, a sweeping gesture of a skinny hand made sort of elegant by sheer force of will. Noblisse oblige.

The fact that Taako has personally tangled with a flying electrical multiplying bear is beside the point, though it might make Jude's air of relative calm a little harder to sustain if that came up.

"And when the wolves get here, we'll impress them with our excellent kitchen layouts," he adds chirpily, entirely too amused with himself as usual. He's been in the habit of laughing at his own jokes first too long to stop now.