"I needed to cause fear." Fear did half his work for him, made fights easier than they might have been. Caused men to jump at shadows and defeat themselves without much more than a shadow. "Circumstances suggested the bat." The bat through his window that had so startled him; the memory of the cave he'd fallen into and he bats that had so frightened him as a child, still young enough that his parents were alive. The bat might not be fierce, but it had proven an apt choice.