[ Color him surprised that Riku didn't up and walk away, but he stashes his pessimissm as quickly as it rises up. Not now. Besides, Pollux is getting noisy again - which means Castor flies up into a hover and then tries to settle next to his brother, but of course Arden's shoulder isn't that big. He quickly grabs the two of them off his shoulder and pulls them down in front of his chest, then opens his palms so they have somewhere to rest on while they lean against one another. At least now they're not making as much noise and he can actually talk. ]

Nothing's wrong with Sora in the sense that he could have prevented this. He wasn't attacked. It's more like he got sick.

[ Maybe not the best analogy considering the soup-sized mini-elephant they aren't talking about, but he's going to run with it as a way to impress upon Riku how innocuous this could turn out to be. ]

No matter how healthy someone can try to be, every once in awhile people just catch cold, right? It's kind of like that. Our best bet is to put him somewhere he won't get bumped, like his bedroom.