"I'm only unpleasant if you make me that way," purrs Thorn. "Blossom likes me quite well, for example. Promise, by contrast, was scarcely worth the trouble it took to take her, but now she's sent me you, which might make up for all her... misbehavior. I don't advise misbehavior," Thorn adds. "I haven't had a mortal in a while, let alone a dubiously mortal one, and for all I know if you make me punish you I'll overshoot and you'll die incapable of screaming on my floor and I'll have to console myself with a much better pleased Blossom and Verve. Tell me what you're thinking."