Assumption hesitated. For all the times he had crept over to Sharkhouse as a Cubone, first to find Henry to ask why he hit Walter and then to see his own friends there, he'd never really been welcomed in by the trainers of the household before. He looked up at Heather again, as if checking that she is actually letting him in, before stepping inside.

He still held his bone close to him and stayed close to Heather too. He didn't like Henry and he didn't like the other lady he had seen here, the one with the Spheal who had made him leave when he had been small. So it was best to stay by Heather, in case either of them saw him and decided to be mean. Walter had asked he be on his best behaviour even to Henry, which was going to be a hard promise to keep.