Corwin rocks back on his heels in surprise. It isn't her taking the food away that surprises him... it's her taking the plate. He's never seen an animal take an entire plate of food at once, rather than pieces off of the plate. His creator did tell him there were other supernaturals out there, of course, but said creator had never met any... and it's not what Corwin jumps to immediately.

But his brain is working, crouched there on the sidewalk, as he watches her come trotting back.

"You," he says after a moment of staring at her thoughtfully, "are an odd little creature. You don't run away from me, you come this close even-- you wait for me to bring you food, and then you care about plates... either there's something funny going on here, or you're trained very strangely by whatever owner you ran away from."