"Oh. Yes." Nikolaos looks a little embarrassed at being suddenly put on the spot, but he obliges by changing back to the brindled lion shape he was in before. He doesn't want to make too drastic a shift lest he upset his passenger. "I don't always know exactly what I am," he admits. "I've just been trying to stay big in case something scary actually does come along."

"But we haven't seen anything," Melanie hastens to add, so Aziraphale won't worry.

Niko changes again, then shuffles one of his paws through the leaves. "Is this a panda?" he wonders aloud. "I feel like I might be a panda."