W-Wait a minute, what if that plan goes wrong? We don't want to give those monsters any excuses to pay attention to us.

[Or just Apollo specifically. He didn't have crazy soul powers like that! He had no way of fighting back against them, and the one weird thing he could do wasn't going to be of much use if these things couldn't even talk. ... Could they talk? That was something Apollo was extremely unwilling to find out for himself.]

I don't know about you, but I'm happy with just getting the raccoons out of here.