"Complying." The otter said, and suddenly started cowering away from him, hands up as if to block his features. "Please! I don't want to be eaten! Don't hurt me!"<br/><br/>Her voice had just the right catch in it, and her expression was genuinely terrified. About the only thing that she wasn't doing was scrabbling backwards away and off the tray, but it looked like she was about to bolt at any second.