Trillen rapidly shook his head. "You startled me earlier when you spoke. But that is not fear. No, Kate, it is not that I fear you in fox form." Absentmindedly, he went back to scratching her back. "It is the fear that you have forced me to change. Forced me to use magic to shift my form. Though now that I know you won't it is fading away." And it was too as was evident in his body language. He was slowly relaxing once more. "I am fine with you in this form...It was just a bit of shock is all since this it the first time I have ever seen it."