Like Gen, Amos was no longer particularly in the habit of trusting people easily. Since arriving on the space station people had been very pleasant and given him no reason to feel distrust - but perhaps that was it. They were too nice. It was unsettling and it made him wonder what they were keeping hidden.
He decided to take a chance. Say hello to the residents and see what he made of them. Plus, he was going to go insane if he just locked himself away from the rest of the world forever.
He found her easily enough. The first thing he spotted was the girl, the second was the expanse of water, and finally - the hound. He'd seen the mechanical hounds on the news, of course he had. Once he'd even spied a glimpse of one that rushed past him after one other poor sucker. But this... this was not mechanical. This was clearly the creature it had been modelled after, and it made him nervous.
"You've got a hound," he stated simply, not sure what more information he really wanted than that.