How about this, we'll meet in the middle- I promise I'll come back for more. Just need to get something I can take with me.

[Pancakes unfortunately aren't that portable unless you just eat it dry, and who does that am I right.

A pet snail doesn't sound too weird, when you consider the fact that he and other kids in his village kept bugs and frogs and all sorts of things all the time. He's just...not imaging a snail that literally says "Meow".]

Snails are pretty self sufficient from what I've seen, so I don't think you have anything to worry about. Not unless he can unlock a door, or something.

[He's joking.]