Cats like him, he can boil water, can't really ask for more glowing endorsements than that. Taako nods in approval, like this is some kinda job interview and not a picnic or whatever. Do the mongooses need maps? Sure, they do now. That's just how easy-breezy island life can be. Seto's gonna learn. Taako finds himself actually feeling real...anticipation? About not-unpleasant things happening to this kid he doesn't know at all. He didn't even know he could think about the island as a positive. The island, which is definitely the positive influence here.

He has a seat too, helps himself to some of Lup's wine, not like she can fight back or anything. Seems like they might be here for awhile, after all, but he can't really find it in himself to mind listening to Ren's rambling about Seto. She's just so happy it's contagious, even when he really kinda thought he was pretty well vaccinated against that kind of thing, and he finds he hasn't really stopped smiling so far. Things got kinda shitty there, for a bit. Finding people from their old homes is defs not the worst thing to come out of all that mess.

"Yeah, guess if he found you all the way here on stank island, hide n seek probably won't be much of a challenge." Taako has turned a deceptively sleepy eye back on The Boy, new-crowned Champion of Hide-n-Seek. "Card games, though, lotta untapped potential there. Could start with blackjack, that's a pretty easy game." How hard is it to teach children to count cards?