[He gives Taako a light shove, then crosses his arms.]

Oh, shut up.

[It's not said in a derisive, at least. Trash Bag follows eagerly after the hand, then stops when she realizes that the food has been laid down. She starts munching away, all the while still meowing. She's a real chatterbox of a cat.]

They're not, like, real Earth rabbits. They're huge--the fully-grown ones are probably eight feet tall or something, and can probably pummel you to pieces. Not a lotta people on Mars actually know that they exist, like they're cryptids or something.

[He used to run off into the sewers whenever things got bad. It was a place to escape. The best way to make a kid feel like they have a smidge of control in their life is to have a wild animal eat out of the palm of their hand.]

Eugh. No. We never had any space or money for any kind of pet. Ma would've probably freaked about it, anyways.