[Inefficiently; that's how Kaiba would have answered her quandary about how food works here. The sporadic hunger pangs were not only detrimental to maintaining an unflappable image, they could also be quite serious in terms of severity, debilitating even. For someone who was used to skipping regular meals, let's just say that he was less than pleased with the addition. He was planning on finding an efficient method to keep snacks handy, and also planning on maintaining a regular exercise schedule. Sure, some of the regular processes were still not in effect, but he would not allow himself to be blindsided again. He would ensure that he maintained his trim figure.

So much for being able to survey the beach for any approaching beasts or persons. Kaiba had failed to do this on multiple accounts all because he had thrown himself so thoroughly into his work. It wasn't until she called out to him that he realized his error. Whipping back towards the unfinished machinery, he only just caught sight of the furry-horned blur as it dashed for him.

Sure, he instinctively raised an arm to shield himself, his other hand reaching for the nearest object that could be used as a weapon but even his reflexes were not quite enough to be the instrument of his own salvation.]

You've got to be kid-

[Was about all he managed to get out. When the claws and fangs should have reached their prey, the pain was not forthcoming. Kaiba had heard the impact, and the accompanying howl of the monster, and he just managed to find his feet by the time the whirlwind of sand and turquoise fabric got between him his wouldbe attacker. What a pair had come to the rescue.Could Kaiba ever live this down?]

I'm in better condition than that thing.

[Speaking of which, it wasn't one of the species he recognized, and he wasn't sure just how dazed it had gotten when she klunked it with her boomerang-like device]

Apparently that impulsive nature isn't reserved only for introductions.. [Hearkening back to their first encounter] Is it incapacitated?