Vesta flips her tail at him for removing the petting, but subsides easily enough.

Making a small but still visible wrinkling of his nose, B says, "Trying to." This is one thing his hypervigilance is good for. He spies the stuff pretty quickly and easily.

Then, because he actually thinks it's kind of clever of him, he bends to grab the coat he's been wearing out and pull the little doll-- a sock stuffed with another sock and with fabric paint on it to make hair and blue dots for eyes, a tin foil arm stuck to one side-- out of his pocket to show Godric. "This works, too. People can kiss that."