Bonding consumable; Prepotente admits he holds several enhanced ones but is too afraid to use them.
Mid-sob, Prepotente confesses to Carl that he is ready for the emptiness to be filled and that he has several enhanced pet biscuits in hand — but after what happened last time, he has been too afraid to use one, and now fears it may be too late.
He adds that Bianca is fine company, but she doesn't speak, which is why he needs to keep communicating with Carl instead. The biscuits stay unused; he remounts Bianca and rides off to inspect Li Na's clock tower.
Enhanced-grade biscuits, carried in inventory and consumed to bond a pet.
The means of bonding a new pet, and the thing Prepotente is too grief-stricken to risk using.
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