The dog-thing made a happy noise and rammed into into Xigbar's boot, face-first. Definitely not the brightest puppy, but neither was the guy it spawned from. It flopped on its back and flailed its legs after another faceplant into the leather.
Only a few rooms away, Kaito had appeared against the steps like the doll he was. The gears inside him whirred and clicked, faintly audible. He took a deep breath, but his eyes looked dull and empty as his CPU tried to process what just happened, continually erroring as it tried to locate his heart. He manually aborted the search process, looking around the room with those dead eyes. Well, Xig did warn him...