The entelechy's interest has been piqued. Here, Meteion is definitely disinclined to make trouble--but she's also a distraction all in and of herself, what with birdlike legs, a feathery tail, and wings that sprout from the sides of her head.

"I'm not very hungry," she says to the very large man, holding up her share of today's rations to him. As an entelechy, she truly doesn't eat at all, but why let that on to the soldiers? There are plenty of others on short rations that hers might help!

Nor does she mind asking the soldiers questions, precisely as if she were the child she appears. If she's aware that she's irritating them, she doesn't let on.