"I don't think so," Corwin answers. "My hypothesis is that it has to do with energy, and people and animals take in energy through eating through their mouths, mostly, while plants are more passive and have to absorb it through every part of them. So what I am affects them in a different way. Perhaps if an animal tried to eat me, it would harm them," he muses, "but I'm not planning on letting any do so, even if one would get close enough to try."