If that's your final destination, you've been holding out on me here.

[Not that Hikage's shown overt signs of being a proper gardener either way -- really more of a garden ornament at this point, though he has nothing on their amazing living lawn ornament twenty years from now -- but it's something he'll poke at in parting anyway.

There's a tilt of his head at the following metaphor, or perhaps it's a leading metaphor in this case.]

And I'd say that's a little scarier than a shepherd or a duck. [he rolls the word scary like it's going out of style] A wolf in sheep's clothing, then?