[ Glancing back over her shoulder, Lucy's eyebrows raise at the sight of the little stone creature. She hadn't seen it accompanying Rhea'li on the way here, so he must have... built it? Summoned it? She doesn't know what the terminology is. The weirdly cute dog-fox-thing bot is struggling, but seems to be held in place for now, so Lucy goes back to work. ]

Whatever you're doing it, keep it up. If we don't want to kill it, I can knock it out after I'm done with the node.

[ Or maybe Rhea'li can, if he's got any access to electricity magic. ]