[It was even better not to put a text to speech function through the torment of "L33t Speak" or whatever the trolls called it.

Equius barked out a laugh, showing a set of snaggled fangs in his grinning maw as he slapped the table. It wasn't often the man laughed, but there was familiarity in that statement.]

Of course, of course. You live with a bark beast. It would be a den. My people are closer to what you call insects than we are to other beasts. So, our homes are hives.

But yes. There is something to making this place more like it is yours, is there not? I should hang up some more hoof beast shoes.