"It does, and it is... no, easier to say I am its host, though it allows me my consciousness to better assist against THEM. It is rather... anti-social, and doesn't like coming away from its calculations, so I am afraid you have to deal with me instead."<br/><br/>He grinned at the creature, before glancing to the side, and shaking his head. "And we need to move, the prey are coming, in force, and I would rather avoid unnecessarily antagonizing them. They know something is down here hunting them, and that there is one down that shouldn't be. So I suspect they will attack first. It won't hurt either, but I would rather avoid unnecessary battle, waste of energy and time, as I am still perfecting temporal manipulation, and have yet to learn to avoid temporal miscalculations that lead to self destructive paradoxes."<br/><br/>He gestured to one of the nearby exits to the room, and began moving to it, the defenses disappearing from magical senses, but still active.