Kieren spun around to see what was wrong, just in time to see Ellis apologizing to a dead rat. If things really came down to fighting to the death, they were screwed. Not that Kieren could blame him. He didn't want to hurt anyone, either.

"It's not your fault. You weren't expecting it to run right by you."

It did make Kieren wonder what they were doing putting someone like him in a place like this. Originally he'd thought he was chosen because being undead, they figured he'd have no problem fighting people when he'd eaten them in the past. Now he was wondering if they knew he was a pacifist, and if all of this was just an exercise in sadism.