In truth it had been a two fold strategy of an answer. Lucanis wasn't certain how secret the whole griffon thing was. On the one hand people said it was before Davrin joined the team, but on the other Rook was regularly requesting him to knock down pallets chained up in the middle of dock town to give them something to climb up. So. 'Pet'. Good and nonspecific. And if Davrin just had to clarify...

If the information got out it was not Lucanis' fault, and it was a far more interesting subject than his own childhood.

"A griffon!" Alessa declared, looking between the two. "I thought they were extinct?"

Lucanis raised an eyebrow at Davrin. Your move to explain, sir.