"Well, bugs aren't the sort of creatures you'd want to take anywhere with too many monsters, or lava pits or booby traps. Too easy for them to get harmed or lost." Knuckles replied affirmatively. "But if you wanted to adventure, I think they'd understand if you left 'em at home a day or two with enough food and water and stuff. They're lucky in that they can take pretty great care of themselves when they have to."

He scraped the excess oatmeal from the stirrer onto the edge of the bucket and set it down on a carefully placed piece of newspaper so it didn't drip mushy stuff all over the place.