[Manages a small, if rather self-deprecating smile, missing Birthday's thought process there entirely once more, if only because he doesn't have the faintest clue of the things he knows or the suspicions he has about Art.]
I won't trouble you to that extent. In my case, those creatures already--
[He doesn't get a chance to say "took what they wanted from me" before the very monster that stole from Art is jumping up front of them both. It has the light orb with it, and clearly wants to a fight to determine who gets to keep it, lunging at Art in demonstration.]