"Gloom will keep y'company while you think then. Make sure y'are not bothered." Except that it was likely all because Gloom wanted to settle into Rabbit's lap and get scritches. This is what happened when he was in laps.

It was, to him, the best kind of magic.

... so Rabbit promptly had a lapful of shadowy marten that would stay with him until he moved.

Smerdle
a wrap ~