This amuses Shen. I mean, really, those things were invented to amuse particularly malevolent children and to confuse foreigners. Well, if the boy's linquistic smatterings were anything to go by, they'd certainly succeeded in the latter task. He debates just snickering at him and leaving him to his inconvenience.

Or, he could just tweak one of those things free and then leave.

He reaches out a wing to do just that: one expert twist and one of them would pop right open.