"Oh. I guess that makes sense?" Scourge said, in the manner of someone desperately trying to pretend they knew what the other person was talking about.

Why spiders, Scourge wondered. They were tiny--usually--and even as monsters they weren't the worst things Scourge had run into. Why not dinosaurs, or cats, or giant purple griffins? Giant purple griffins had an air of dignity to them.

"So you can order them around, right?"