Beasts. [ He repeats, recalling, tipping his head back to watch some stray flower petals be carried by the wind overhead. ] You mean that other form you've taken from time to time, right? [ What was it ... a fox or a large cat...? ]

You keep that a secret from them. [ Yzak's learned this and that about the world Minimus comes from. It's impossible not to have, given how long he's been here and how many others from that world have been here. They've spoken of wars between them, but he's never heard of 'beasts' before. ]

What's their problem with them?