Xel's eyeteeth aren't as pointy as Lina-san's or Gaav-dono's, but they still glitter nicely. "How do you feel about secretions that were squeezed out of the lumpy parts of cows by the same hands that muck out the horse stalls--cows, who eat grass and also any small insects that happen to be on the grass, which also grows in the dirt?"
He considers this question carefully, albeit quickly, and decides that, "Hai!" is a truthful answer. Because it is.
"That's why you're learning to be more careful," he says unsympathetically, the cloth hat not currently visible to the organic eye. "Bad things happen when you carelessly break other people's things. Five minutes in that hat or hatless, or if you make it through the maze once, whichever comes first."